University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Newsletter

WiBee 2022 Newsletter 2: Apples, Wildflowers and a Data Primer 🍎🌻

Apples and early wildflowers will be blooming soon! You can use the app to track pollinators, and view all WiBee data on the data dashboard.

WiBee 2022 Newsletter 1: 🐝 Season Starts Soon!

Thank you to our 316 participants from 2021! Let’s review survey protocols before the start of the 2022 season and go over our pollinator groups.

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 11: Results and Help Us Improve 👀

Thank you to our 2021 Volunteers! 2021 results are in. See our short reports for common crops and wildflowers. Please help us improve WiBee by taking our end-of-year survey.

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 10: survey + see your data in app update 👀

Any crops left? Send ’em in now. Possibilities include pumpkins, raspberries or peas. Still plenty of wildflowers, like Phlox, Allium, Solidago, and Asters. Lots of bees out there. Learn how to see your own data in latest app update. Meet a fuzzy fall flier

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 9: Diverse bees pollinate late crops and wildflowers 🌻

Cucumbers, Tomatoes Sunflowers still blooming. Plenty of wildflowers like boneset and evening primrose in addition to the many asters, goldenrods, and sunflowers. It’s a great time to learn all bee groups and how to classify complex flowers. Meet a bee that flies at dusk and at night!

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 8: Late summer, and initial visitor graphs

Goldenrods, cup plant, asters, and other late season flowers are blooming in abundance, along with a few veggie crops  Pie charts show wide variation in what types of bees are visiting different flowers Bumblebee with fancy footwear Full newsletter

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 7: Meet the Squash Bee, 🍅 Blitz, Wildflower ID

Tomato Blitz, Cranberry results, Wildflower ID
Have pumpkins, squash, or melons? Meet their pollinators and send us surveys.

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 6: Cranberries, cucumbers, melons 🍉 oh My!

Get in last Cranberry surveys, and get ready for Cucumbers, Mellons and Tomato Blitz See what crops in Wisconsin are pollinator dependent Display of Master Gardener Volunteer survey counts and some volunteer bee pictures. Full newsletter  

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 5: Three surveys in 15 minutes 🕒 for Pollinator Week

It only takes 15 minutes to do 3 surveys and make a difference. Ever wonder why we ask for repeat surveys? See a real life example here. Full newsletter

WiBee 2021 Newsletter 4: What’s blooming and tips for tricky bees 📝

Whats blooming and recent surveys overview. What bee groups do you think are hardest to identify? Learn some ID tips with lots of bee photos. Full newsletter