For my project I decided to plant native plants to bring the bee populations up. Getting on campus was the first challenge due to COVID-19, once that was figured out I had to decide how I was going to get the plants. This was a challenge because there was a $500 budget so I couldn't decide whether to spend most of it on plants or cameras. I decided to spend the budget on cameras and ask for donations of plants. I asked two of the plant nurseries that have helped OPUSD in the past, for donations. One of the two, Growing Works, was willing to donate. Without their donation this would be impossible and I could not complete my project. Now that I have the plants I needed the cameras and I heard that OPUSD was willing to let us borrow trail camera traps, which helped the project incredibly. I was able to use my budget on pots, materials to build the nests, potting soil, and gardening tools instead. Once we had everything we needed to plant and install the camera traps, the whole thing took about 2 days. Once this was done I needed to gather data from the cameras, work on my final presentation, and figure out my last stages. Over all the setup has been hard but I know can finish it because I have all these wonderful people supporting me.

So far the things I have learned from my project include more effective ways to plant plants, and how native palnts grow. I have also learned new things such as placing cameras, building bee nests, and cataloging data. I have also learned new ways to work on projects and studies. Most of all with patience and hard work you can accomplish great things.

After watching 1,423 videos of bee fotage I learned about bee behavior and how different tempreatures will effect the bees too. I also learned that my camera traps were giving the tempreature of the metal boxes they were in not the tempreture outside. In total, 133 movies had bees, 150 bees were seen in total, and about 70 were possibly native. It seemed the most popular plant was the Germander, the russian sage was the second best and I had only seen a bee resting on the bulbine. The two nests we built for bees were not used but one of them was taken over by a mouse. After a fully analyzing the data it seems there has been a significant change in spotted bees.