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The 2009 Bee Watching Season is now officially over. Thank you Bee Watchers for a great season - we really appreciate your help!
One-third of our food depends on the services of a pollinator—bee or other insect, bird, or mammal. Bees are the most important pollinators in the Northeastern U.S., and there are more than 200 species of bees that live right here in New York City. By watching and recording bees on flowers in your backyard, community garden, green roof or terrace, you can help us understand the challenges that bees are facing in the urbanized landscape of NYC. Click here to get started.
You can also use this website to learn more about bees generally (including what you can do in your own urban oasis) or to just discover more about the wild urban bees of NYC.
Finally, if you are a land manager or gardener working for a city agency you can use this site to find technical resources about pollinator conservation in New York City.
You may have noticed that we have a new URL (http://greatpollinatorproject.org). This is to better reflect the expanded scope of the project. But if you forget the new one, the old URL (http://nycbeewatchers.org) will still work.
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Did You Know:
• There are 4,000 bee species in North America
• There are 800 bee species east of the Rocky Mountains
• There are 423 bee species in New York State
• There are 226 bee species in New York City
• Fifty-four bee species have been identified from a suite of Bronx community gardens
• Fifty-eight bee species have been identified from Central Park
• Fifty-nine bee species have been identified from Prospect Park |
The Great Pollinator Project is a collaboration between the Greenbelt Native Plant Nursery and the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
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