World Bee Day/Week 2024 Bioblitz

The UN has designated 20 May as World Bee Day to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development,

Pollinators visit flowers to drink plant nectar and/or eat and/or gather pollen or oils or scents and then transport pollen as they move about. These actions can result in the fertilization of host plants. (Bees in particular do this but so do other invertebrates such as beetles, butterflies, flies, moths and wasps, as well as vertebrates such as birds, bats and rodents, although some plants are wind or self- pollinated).

Welcome to those interested to participate in the World Bee Day/Week 2024 bioblitz May 17, 2024 - May 23, 2024 and help raise awareness of this day.

Last year during roughly this same time period 36,649 observers posted 151,832 qualifying observations as indicated in the World Bee Day/Week 2023 mockup project. 35766 observations were posted by the top 500 observers in 2023.

This project is running from https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/world-bee-day-week-2024

Please join the project, and record any flower visitors that you see over the week. Any bees will automatically be added to this project.

Pollinators play a vital role in maintaining biodiversity and the stability of ecosystems by facilitating flowering plant reproduction. Humans rely on the results of pollinator activity for many crops yielding food production including fruits, vegetables, and nuts, but also for the production of non-food products such as fibres, dyes, and medicines derived from plant sources.
By contrast, the stability of pollination systems is negatively impacted by human activity. This leads to the loss of habitat by urbanization, agriculture, and land development. Agrochemicals, including pesticides and herbicides, impact pollinators by poisoning them, reducing forage, weakening their immune systems, or disrupting their navigation abilities. Climate changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, and plant phenology can disrupt pollinator and their floral resource synchronization. The introduction of invasive alien species and hives and their parasites and pathogens can also negatively impact native pollinators through competition and pathology.

Raising public awareness and comprehension regarding the importance of pollinators and the necessary steps for their conservation is vital for successful conservation endeavours.

Please consider joining in. It is great fun and contributes useful information.

More information can be found here:

Main Project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/world-bee-day-week-2024/journal
United Nation's page: https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day
FAQs: https://www.fao.org/world-bee-day

Please remember when posting flower visitors, to include the Interactions project to the observations.
Please join here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/interactions-linked/join

Publicado el 14 de mayo de 2024 a las 02:59 PM por