Associated plants for BC native Bees's Journal

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/world-bee-day-week-2024

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

Pollinators visit flowers to drink plant nectar and/or eat and/or gather pollen and/or 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 butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and wasps as well as vertebrates such as birds, bats, and small mammals.

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.

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. In contradiction, pollinator's stability is negatively impacted by human activity which lead to loss of habitat such as urbanization, agriculture, and land development. Agrochemicals, including pesticides and herbicides, impact pollinators by poisoning them, reducing forage, weaken immune systems, or disrupt navigation abilities. Changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, and plant phenology can disrupt pollinator and their floral resource synchronization. Human activity can introduce invasive species and their parasites and pathogens that may 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.

Plants were added to the included species today. ~94 species

Just a quick note to say that casual observations have been added to the filters for this project. The rational is that many pollinator observations occur on plants that have been introduced. The project was made to help recognize plants that bees are active with. I have left off Needs ID for now as helping to ID those plants was not the ambition here but more as a way to recognize known plants - there is a good chance that the casuals will be known but moved to casual. Hope that makes sense.

Below is a table with some fields that are in searches that will look for Bees Epifamily Anthophila (taxon_id=630955) that were recorded as being associated with the various Plant taxon as listed in the table below using the URL search:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=Fauna Taxon ID Number of Choice&verifiable=any&field:Field of Choice=Flora Taxon of Choice Number)
for instance:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=630955&verifiable=any&field:Interaction-%3EVisited%20flower%20of=48561

One could look just for Bombus by substituting in the Taxon ID Number of 52775 eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=52775&verifiable=any&field:Interaction-%3EVisited%20flower%20of=48561

Current numbers of bees as of today's date posting are in brackets eg =48561 (245)

For the last Field the datatype was not based on taxon but instead text was selected which results in the taxon number not yielding a result.

I'll try to add references here as I become aware of them

Pollen Specialist Bees of the Western United States courtesy of @bzand during the Native Bee Society of BC - Native Bee Study Group 2022-11-23

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365760808_A_Brief_Review_on_Biodiversity_of_Pollinators

November 4th, 2022
Query quality_grade=any&identifications=any&projects[]=nbsbc-bee-tracker
Columns field:feeding+on, field:name+of+associated+plant, field:nectar+%2F+pollen+delivering+plant, field:nectar+plant, field:plant+association

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