Partnership & Grantee Highlights
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Leading Vermont’s Native Bee Inventories
The Vermont Wild Bee Survey was launched in 2019 to inventory the state’s wild bees. Several years of intensive fieldwork have produced a powerful dataset of more than 60,000 occurrence records for over 350 bee species now known from the state.
From this work, VCE published The State of Vermont’s Wild Bees, a detailed analysis of the current knowledge, threats, and conservation needs of these important pollinators. This work has also been shared through dozens of presentations across the state.
On the conservation and outreach side, VCE is assisting with several regional and national collaborations focused on bee conservation assessments. They are working closely with partners, including UVM, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, and others, on Vermont pollinator issues.
Funding from One Hive is supporting VCE’s long-term bumblebee monitoring, the publication of an annotated checklist of the bees of Vermont, and research into how plants from different geographic regions can affect Vermont’s unique ecosystem.
Links to learn more about VCE’s projects:
https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vtbees/
On the conservation and outreach side, VCE is assisting with several regional and national collaborations focused on bee conservation assessments. They are working closely with partners, including UVM, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, and others, on Vermont pollinator issues.
Funding from One Hive is supporting VCE’s long-term bumblebee monitoring, the publication of an annotated checklist of the bees of Vermont, and research into how plants from different geographic regions can affect Vermont’s unique ecosystem.
Links to learn more about VCE’s projects:
https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vtbees/
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