New Vermont ‘Bee Team’ to Tackle Pollinator Threats

A new #Vermont Pollinator Working Group, led by UVM and #vtatlasoflife, will protect bees and other pollinators by targeting harmful pesticide use, while helping Vermont farmers to get to know the pollinators buzzing around their crops. The Working Group will work with researchers, conservationists, farmers, and beekeepers to tackle urgent threats to bees and other pollinators. https://www.uvm.edu/news/gund/new-vermont-bee-team-tackle-pollinator-threats

View data for this species in Vermont on the VAL Data Explorer - https://val.vtecostudies.org/gbif-explorer/?taxonKey=1356868&view=MAP

Learn more about this species in Vermont at the Vermont Wild Bee Survey - https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vtbees/andrena-asteris/

...published in Northeastern Naturalist using #vtatlasoflife @gbif mediated data:

Biology of Andrena (Callandrena Sensu Lato) Asteris Robertson (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), an Eastern Aster Specialist that Makes a Very Deep Nest

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://bioone.org/journals/northeastern-naturalist/volume-29/issue-4/045.029.0406/Biology-of-Andrena-Callandrena-Sensu-Lato-Asteris-Robertson-Hymenoptera/10.1656/045.029.0406.full

New sample-event data published! Surveys of Select Pollinators on Powerline Right-of-Ways in Central Vermont, USA. Surveys of Bumble Bees (Bombus), Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) and Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) on powerline right-of-ways in central Vermont, USA were conducted at each site using 200 meter transects visited four times during July and August of 2021. #vtatlasoflife @gbif https://www.gbif.org/dataset/caa0e86f-c17d-49ed-a4a5-449e30405a19

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2022

Field Guide to January 2023. Although the days are slowly growing longer, life in the Northeast now finds itself in the coldest depths of winter. January is about survival. Wildlife that doesn’t migrate adapts instead to make it to spring. Here are a few tidbits of natural history happening outdoors this month around you. https://vtecostudies.org/blog/field-guide-to-january-2023/

New! Checklist of Fireflies (Lampyridae) in Vermont, USA published to @gbif

The checklist is comprised of 13 confirmed species. Five additional species may be found in Vermont, but lack verified records. Two species are recommended as Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Vermont by Fallon et. al (2022): Pyractomena dispersa and P. sinuata. Both of these species lack occurrence localities in GBIF.

https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fca013b3-d6f4-4638-b0fc-654f5c84a73b

We've been using and promoting #inaturalist since 2012. Here's why!

The Nature Lover’s App That Became a Catalog of Earth’s Biodiversity
In the millions of posts on iNaturalist, users are unearthing new species, tracking invasive insects and making incredible discoveries. Scientists are taking note.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/citizen-scientists-fueling-biodiversity-research/

#vtatlasoflife

Close to 200 countries reached a watershed agreement early Monday to stem the loss of nature worldwide, pledging to protect nearly a third of Earth’s land and oceans as a refuge for the planet’s remaining wild plants and animals by the end of the decade. You know who wasn’t one of them? 🇺🇸 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/cop15-historic-deal-signed-to-halt-biodiversity-loss-by-2030-aoe

#Cop15 key points of the nature deal

🌱 Agreement to conserve 30% of Earth by the end of the decade

🌱 Indigenous rights at the heart of conservation

🌱 Reform of environmentally harmful subsidies

🌱 Nature disclosures for businesses

🌱 A way forward on digital biopiracy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/cop15-key-points-of-nature-deal-at-a-glance-aoe

#nature #climatechange #biodiversity #climate #environment

"Nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity." 👇

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64019324

#Biodiversity #COP15

Last week I spent a half-day as usually on the CBC for Woodstock. I tallied 21 species on my walks and added the checklists to #vtatlasoflife #Vermont eBird - https://ebird.org/vt/tripreport/90068. Along the way I also recorded some #vtatlasoflife on #inaturalist observations too - https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/kpmcfarland/2022/12/15.

Every year I always make sure to visit this huge Paper Birch way up in the hills and say hi. This time, a forestry operation had harvested right up to it, but it survives - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144432792

We have updated the Checklist of Vermont Butterflies @gbif with two new species recorded this year. There have been 114 species recorded.

On 30 June 2022 in sw corner of Vermont Terri Armata photographed a Northern Oak Hairstreak (Satyrium favonius ontario) nectaring at milkweed and shared it with @eButterfly.

On 5 October 2022 James McNamara photographed a European Peacock (Aglais io) in a garden in Calais, Vermont and reported it the #vtatlasoflife on #iNaturalist.

https://www.gbif.org/dataset/73eb16f0-4b06-4347-8069-459bc2d96ddb#description

Congratulations to Sam Darmstadt for winning the November 2022 Photo-observation of the Month for #vtatlasoflife on #inaturalist
His photo of a wily weasel received the most favs of any in Vermont during the past month. Learn more at https://val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/inaturalist-photo-observation-of-the-month/

Read more and see the runner up images here: https://vtecostudies.org/blog/october-2022-photo-observation-of-the-month/

Visit the Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist, where you can vote for the winner this month by clicking 'fav' on your favorite photo-observation. Make sure you get outdoors and record the biodiversity around you, then submit your discoveries—and you could be a winner! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/vermont-atlas-of-life