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Member Symposium

Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Diverse Partnerships for Pollinator Conservation

Characterization of state and provincial bee faunas with volunteer Master Melittologists

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
1:33 PM - 1:48 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, E141-142, OCC
Oral Presentation
We describe the discoveries and learning pathway of Master Melittologists contributing to Bee Atlases in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon ad New Mexico. These efforts have amassed more contemporary bee occurrence records than any other effort in North America, and created the largest contemporary bee-plant network in the world. By tracking the productivity of volunteers across years of experience we observe that volunteers produce increasingly high quality records over time at increasing distance from the place they reside. Our findings suggest that volunteers can fill a gap currently left open by professionals, to produce high quality data for bee conservation