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Insect Outreach and Education
Insect Outreach and Education
The Fernald Club conducts insect outreach events at UMass Amherst and elsewhere in the western Massachusetts community, including at schools, colleges, libraries, environmental centers, and more. We bring live insects and spiders from the UMass Live Insect Zoo, preserved specimens from the UMass Insect Museum, and more!
Many of our events also involve representatives from the UMass Bee Campus USA Committee, our campus partner organization in insect conservation. Such events additionally feature native pollinator specimens, pollinator educational games, and lots of opportunities to learn more about bees and other native pollinators.
Contact us at fernaldclubumass@gmail.com if you want to host us for an insect outreach event at your western Massachusetts location!
iNaturalist Project
iNaturalist Project
The Fernald Club maintains an iNaturalist project of all insects and related arthropods observed on the UMass campus. So far we have documented nearly 1,300 species on the UMass campus, including some that are rare or unusual!
You can help us document our campus insect biodiversity by contributing to this project! Simply submit a photo of an insect, spider, or other arthropod taken on the UMass Amherst campus to iNaturalist using the app or website, and it will be automatically added to our project.
Bee Campus USA
Bee Campus USA
Bee Campus USA is an initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation to certify college campuses as bee-friendly and dedicated to promoting pollinator conservation. Thanks to the efforts of UMass's Bee Campus USA committee, UMass Amherst achieved Bee Campus certification in 2025!
UMass Bee Campus operates independently from the Fernald Club, but often collaborates with the club on pollinator outreach events, and shares the club's goals of promoting conservation and education about pollinators and other insects.
Visit the UMass Bee Campus website to learn more, or see their iNaturalist project monitoring pollinators on the UMass Amherst campus! Any iNaturalist pollinator observations from campus will get automatically added to the UMass Bee Campus project.
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