Take photographs of bees and share with experts at Bumble Bee Watch to help determine the range of various species.
The Bumble Bee Atlas provides workshops to train citizen scientists to survey pre-determined grid cells for target bumble bee species of conservation concern and report findings online to Bumble Bee Watch.
Participate in the Monarch Watch Tagging Program every fall to help scientist get a better understanding of monarch’s migration patterns.
Did you know that monarch caterpillars only eat from a milkweed plant to grow into a butterfly? Help monarch caterpillars and adult monarchs by planting native milkweed plants and other native nectar-rich wildflowers. Planting native helps the environment, wildlife and is less maintenance for the gardener. View a nectar plant list and visit a South Carolina nursey that sells native plants.
Assist the University of Minnesota in their nationwide study of monarch butterfly ecology through the Monarch
Larva Monitoring Program.
Winter Monarch Butterfly Tagging Project - Monarch butterfly populations are decreasing, with record low winter counts for Mexico in 2014.
Many of the monarchs migrate from Mexico to the upper Midwest and southern Canada during the summer and then back to Mexico in the fall. But
on the East coast, things are different. Monarchs migrating along the East coast in fall typically do not go to Mexico. Some over-winter along
the immediate coast of South Carolina. Scientists want to find out more about this winter range along the Lowcountry coast.
The Firefly Atlas provides a training video to teach citizen scientists how to submit incidental sightings of fireflies or conduct full surveys for the 13 focus species of conservation concern and report them online.
Assist the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation with their study of dragonflies by participating in
Pond Watch and Migration Monitoring programs.