[Pollinator] Pollinator Week in Melbourne Australia!

[Kit Prendergast]

Dear Peter, Jane and Malcolm,
Pollinator Week has been running for a number of years now. I have been
involved in doing 'Bee Bioblitz' and giving a presentation on native bees
for the last two year. This year although it wasn't a registered activity I
did a bee hotel workshop for children on Saturday in between helping out at
a invertebrate stall at the WA Herpetology Society Expo at the showgrounds
(photo attached...I wish there were more native bee themed dresses!)

More to the point, I also created a facebook group called Bees in the burbs
which has some citizen science projects that are not merely restricted to
just one week. I have one for Western Australian members to record native
bee observations, and they can share their photos on my facebook group for
me to verify IDs (to genus level in most cases since species level requires
physical specimens).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Beesintheburbs/

I also have a global project on bee hotels that I would encourage everyone
to contribute to.
Please note that the group is not just restricted to 'burbs but everywhere!
=D It started off locally but has since blossomed into a very active group
with members from all sorts of habitats.

To contribute to my citizen science project on bee hotels, I have a
spreadsheet for people worldwide to record observation of bees (and other
critters) at their bee hotels. To contribute to my citizen science project,
click on the 'Announcements' tab in the left sidebar of the group page Bees
in the burbs . A new tab will open up, and there are three spreadsheets.
The first is for bee hotels (the other two for observations of native bees
in WA in residential areas and in parks/bushland). You double click on the
spreadsheet to be filled in (or right click and select Open with-> Google
sheeets), and this will open up in a new tab. You then enter the data in a
new blank row, according to the column headings. No need to fill all in,
just what info you have available. Once you finish entering the data you
want to input, click on a blank cell and wait for it to automatically save.
Thanks!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hSdB-jWdbNZvMA4FVlZjv8XN_KiSUrfa/edit#gid=1415265979

I share my findings of bee friendly flora for Australian bees with members,
have albums with descriptions of the different genera to help people learn
about the different native bee taxa, and also share scientific articles or
summaries on the latest bee research (including my own), and critique
#beewashing and other trends.

Feel free to join, all are welcome :)

Julie Armstrong - I have found there is a lot of misinformation regarding
what flowers are actually suitable for supporting our native pollinators -
those favoured by European honeybees are innappropriate for our more
specialised species. Feel free to contact me to be involved in your Urban
Landscape Planting List or if you require a scientific consultant to ensure
bee friendly proposal are in fact good for native bees (I have seen a lot
of terrible bee hotels for instance or seed bombs full of exotics).

Kind regards,
Kit



On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 09:03, Peter Bernhardt <peter.bernhardt at slu.edu>
wrote:

> My former PhD advisor, Malcolm Calder, sent me the following link.  This
> is something I never thought I'd see.  Let's hope they have it every year
> and activities are covered by "The Science show."  Will it spread to every
> Australian state?
>
>
> Peter
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Malcolm <acacias at bigpond.net.au>
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 9, 2019 6:32 PM
> *To:* Peter Bernhardt <peter.bernhardt at slu.edu>
> *Subject:* [External] How Victoria's 'Snow in the Paddocks' melted away -
> and is being saved
>
> Hi peter
> I found this article from The Age that you might be interested in:
> Today is the start of pollination week in Australia!!!  Can you imagine?
> Check the link.
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://Australianpollinatorweek.org.au__;!euKmGKuCglU!aVNYWm5cst2KaOwTWCcWSnEUszMsg0vPVzjNv1dLQs5NTqqEBaUDsVNaGmnBH43N$
>
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.theage.com.au/environment/-p5379a.html__;!euKmGKuCglU!aVNYWm5cst2KaOwTWCcWSnEUszMsg0vPVzjNv1dLQs5NTqqEBaUDsVNaGoZDCTCh$
>
> Happy reading .     Malcolm and Jane
>
>
>
>

-- 
Kit Prendergast
Native bee scientist, conservation biologist and zoologist
PhD researcher (Curtin University) and Forrest Scholar
ORCiD: *https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-6099
<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-6099>*
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