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Over 220 bee species are known to live in New York City. The purpose of this blog is to celebrate the natural history, ecology and conservation of these and other urban pollinators.

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How many bees on a sunflower?

A while back, bee watcher Richard Warden sent in this awesome picture of multiple bees on a giant sunflower head. At the time, this was a record image for the Great Pollinator Project— four individual bees on a sunflower representing three species!

Four bees on sunflower, photo by Richard Warden

But the record was recently broken [...]

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“Are those all bees?”

We heard this question many times over the course of the day at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 100th birthday – “Bee Day” – celebration on June 12. Ed Toth, Liz Johnson, and I manned a Great Pollinator Project table where a small box of bees from the American Museum of Natural History’s collection attracted a lot [...]

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