Cranberry is blooming! As are lots of crops and wildflowers. Check out which Wisconsin crops depend the most on pollinators.
Pollinator News
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.
Bees in winter
Bees are still out there even when the flowers are gone. Where are they? Many of the bees we saw visiting flowers this summer have died, but their offspring will make it through the winter. …
9/8/21: Welcome, it’s a good time to start
Welcome new participants! We may be transitioning to fall but there are plenty of bees out there for you to learn and use the app. Training links are provided in the app and on the website. WiBee saw a big buzz from a recent a newspaper article! If the resulting server overload gummed up your registration, please try again now, we’ve upgraded! Contact us with any questions.
9/7/21: Registration trouble? Try again now!
Welcome new participants! We have heard that some people who recently tried to register received an error the app would not accepted their emails. It looks like the app was overloaded with a lot of requests all at once-thanks for all the interest! If this happened to you, try again now, it should work!
9/3/21-Learn WiBee now, be ready for spring
We may be transitioning to fall but there are still enough bees out there for you to learn to use the app and be ready to just pick it up and go when your crops …
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
8/17/21: What wildflowers support your bees?
We still have some summer left and some crops and many flowers are blooming. The drought in parts of our area is causing some flowers to die more quickly this year so get out soon. If you are new, start now! Growers what other flowers are supporting your pollinators? Where are honeybees foraging? See some late season bees that like asters and goldenrods.