Supporting Research

Below are a series of articles and videos that I used to support my project. They share some of the current scientific data out there in addition to explaining ecological relationships. There is also a section of resources to help you identify native bees when you see them.

My Bee Project Resources

How to make a bumblebee nest

these are the directions for how the bee nests in the garden were assembled

CA Native plants used in garden

these are the plants that went into our garden and pots on campus

Ident-a-Bee

this is the card that will be shared with the school community to help get other students to ID bees for the project

Bee Info & Identification

Common Bee groups of CA

Bee info from UC Berkeley's Urban Bee lab

Bumblebees of the Western United States

bee ID info

Intro to California's Native Bees

bee ID info by group

10 common CA native bees and the plants they love

Data from UC Davis Arboretum

Scientific Articles

Assessing the Relationship Between California Native Plants and Pollinator Abundance

Scientific research on native pollinators conducted by UCLA and the Theodore Payne Institute

Native bees often better pollinators than honey bee

The effectiveness of native bees as pollinators

CA Native Plants that attract Native Bees

Las Pilitas Native Plant

Native bees are a rich natural resource in urban California gardens

Research on attracting native bees to urban gardens

Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of ‘climate chaos’

National Geographic article on the decrease in bumblebee populations

First survey of California's bees in 50 years will look for effects of habitat destruction

An article about a scientific survey of what loss of habitat has done to native been populations in California

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