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| Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge, ND one of the 18 sites! |
They were very long days. Starting at 5:00am wake up call, a very large breakfast by my standards, then driving to 18 sites twice a day (morning and afternoon surveys), trying to catch as much native bees as possible with hand nets! In addition, we had to survey the plants in a 1 meter square...and count every flowers on each species...do you want to know how many flower are on a Sweet Colver? No you don't! 750 and +. We would come back to a home with no AC around 8:00pm each evening,(inside temperature:85F). We would cook together, and eat. Then we would try to ID some native "weeds" that were not easy to distinguished, or get ready with paperwork and equipment for the next day.We were hot, sweaty, and dusty but I enjoyed every minute. Needless to say that on average each of us would catch 3-4 native bees per day, and release all other insects!
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Honey bee on Yellow Sweet Clover
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Karine "at work"!
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