Using Nature to Monitor Nature with BeeODiversity Monitoring Programs

We have to save the bees, but can bees help us save the planet? That’s the mission of BeeOdiversity, a company that is using bees to track environmental quality and biodiversity in precise detail over large areas. We will be learning about BeeODiversity, their projects, and how you can use their services for environmental monitoring, biodiversity monitoring, restoration efforts, water quality monitoring, invasive species management, and more!

Bees are pollinators, who transfer pollen from plant to plant. Researchers at BeeOdiversity have developed a process for analyzing that same pollen to determine incredible amounts of information about the environment and created analytic and communication tools to make this data available to communities, companies, and others. They work with bees and local beekeepers to gather pollen over a wide area and then analyze pollen samples to establish and monitor precise data on environmental quality, biodiversity, and related action opportunities and outcomes.

A colony of bees can collect pollen samples from 4 billion different plants, covering an area up to 1800 acres, in just one year. That’s a lot of data! And it allows BeeOdiversity to cost-effectively create outputs from this data that may be useful to you! Join us to learn more!

Links to learn more:

https://www.wildcalifornia.org/post/beeodiversity-works-with-bee-colonies-to-study-environmental-quality-and-biodiversity

https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2023-04-05/thu-9-am-to-help-the-bees-get-help-from-the-bees

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/features/assisted-by-ai-a-workforce-of-bees-tracks-pollution-and-boosts-biodiversity/?ocid=FY24_soc_omc_br_li_Savethebees