🐞 Next Pollinator/Insect Survey at the Growing Center > 8:30am Aug, Friday 26th

[EwA]

It's great to see interest in helping our city pollinators (&insects). Thanks for joining this science community effort!

We'll be at the Growing Center this Friday (8:30am). 'We' is Sarah (EwA Summer intern), and 3 new citizen scientists! 

Our visit (our 2nd) will be about establishing the count site by selecting 10 trees and tagging 10 branches. 

We record all our activities in site-specific logs that we make public, so the same will apply to the Growing Center > here it is.

📅 You can check our Events calendar to see when we plan our visits > our Growing Center events usually have a beetle 🐞 appended to their title to ease spotting them in our busy calendar ツ

For the Growing Center, we'll be spontaneous (more so than for our other sites surveys), and have them planned about a day to a week prior to a visit.

I'll be the one leading those surveys while you are with me. So you'll have a great opportunity to learn and practice until you want to do it as well on your own -or not: it's fine to keep wanting to do it in a group setting :-) The goal, besides community and science building, is also to have you monitoring when we can't, and supply additional data. The more regular and continuous our surveys are, the better it is for our pollinators, our scientists and ourselves as human Earth-citizen!

Each visit I'll start with the field task du jour, and with a short intro with important info for newcomers to give a chance to anybody to start at any point during the year. 

If you're new and you missed the project intro part, and day field duty explanations, then no worry, there's always the next event! :-) 

ⓘ More about this project » https://www.earthwiseaware.org/...join-the-somerville-pollinator-project/

ⓘ More about EwA Citizen Science Program » https://tinyurl.com/ewa-citizen-science

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