Resources
Our Bookmarks
A list of links to websites, pages, pdfs, groups, and other helpful bee information or resources. These are our bookmarks. Enjoy 🙂
- Biological Associations
- Checklists
- Citizen Science
- Collecting & Surveys
- Conservation
- Curation
- Databases, Datasets, & Portals
- Education
- General: Biology/ Ecology
- Identification: Keys & Guides
- Identification: Services
- Labs, Organizations, & Projects
- Listservs/email lists
- Materials & Supplies
- Morphology
- Phenology
- Photos
- Taxonomy & Systematics
- YouTube & Podcasts
- Additions & Corrections
List of links by category:
- Bee Mite ID: Bee-associated Mite Genera of the World
- Bee-flower interactions on an old field in southeastern Michigan
- Bees of Canada – Plants
- Bumble Bee Flower Finder
- Elliot Gordon’s Bee Parasites
- Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
- Pollen Specialist Bees of the Eastern United States
- Pollinator interaction flexibility across scales affects patch colonization and occupancy
- TRY plant trait database
- A checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Manitoba, Canada (pdf)
- A Checklist of the Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Pennsylvania
- A list of bees from three locations in the Northern Rockies Ecoregion (NRE) of western Montana
- An updated checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) of Pennsylvania
- Andrenidae of Goowell and Texhoma
- Bee Fauna of Slovenia: Checklist of Species
- Bees of Canada – Species
- Bees of Maine
- Bees of New Mexico
- Biological Survey of Canada – iNaturalist
- Biota of Canada – Apoidea
- Bombus of the World
- Bumble and Carpenter Bees of Vermont
- Cedar Creek: Order Hymenoptera
- Checklist of bees (Apoidea) from a private conservation property in west-central Montana
- Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from managed emergent wetlands in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas
- Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from small diversified vegetable farms in south-western Montana
- Checklist of the Bees of Pennsylvania
- Checklist of the Bumble Bees of British Columbia
- Checklist of the Western Palaearctic Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
- Decades of native bee biodiversity surveys at Pinnacles National Park highlight the importance of monitoring natural areas over time
- Discover Life: Kinds of Apoidea Species
- E-Fauna British Columbia – Species Checklists
- Empire State Native Pollinator Survey – Species Accounts
- Hymenoptera of North Carolina
- Maine Bumble Bee Atlas – Species List
- Moure Catalog for neotropical bee species
- New records and range extensions of several species of native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Mississippi
- Ohio Bee Atlas – iNaturalist – Species
- Oregon Bee Atlas – Datasets
- The Bees of British Columbia
- The Bees of Colorado
- The Bees of Michigan
- The Empire State Native Pollinator Survey 2017 – 2021
- Wild bees of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: richness, abundance, and spatio-temporal beta-diversity
- Beecology
- Big-Bee: Big Bee Bonanza
- Biological Survey of Canada – iNaturalist
- Bumble Bee Atlas
- Bumble Bee Watch
- California Bumble Bee Atlas
- Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections
- Great Plains Bumble Bee Atlas
- iNaturalist
- Iowa Bumble Bee Atlas
- Minnesota Bumble Bee Atlas
- Missouri Bumble Bee Atlas
- Native Bee Watch
- Nebraska Bumble Bee Atlas
- Oregon Bee Project: Oregon Bee Atlas
- Pacific Northwest Bumble Bee Atlas
- Shutterbee
- South East Bumble Bee Atlas
- The Bees’ Needs
- The Great American Bee Count
- The Great Southeast Pollinator Census
- The Great Sunflower Project
- Wild Pollinator Count
- A standardized method for monitoring bee populations – The Bee Inventory Plot
- Alaska Bee Atlas: Inventory and Monitoring Plan and Protocol
- Empire State Native Pollinator Survey (general) (2017 – 2023 results)
- National Protocol Framework for the Inventory and Monitoring of Bees
- Pennsylvania Bee Monitoring Program
- Sam Droege’s bee resources
- A Flower Patch for the Rusty Patched
- Alaska Bee Atlas – Alaska Center for Conservation Science
- Arid grassland bee communities: associated environmental variables and responses to restoration
- Bee Bold Mendocino
- Bees and Their Habitats in Four New England States
- Bumble Bee Atlas
- Bumble Bee Flower Finder
- Bumble Bee Recovery, Wildlife Conservation Canada
- Bumble Bees are Essential: Helping Pollinators Thrive
- California Bumble Bee Atlas
- European Red List of Bees
- Iberian Bees
- Impacts of Range Management Decisions on Native Pollinators: Innovative Grazing Practices and Riparian Restoration
- Iowa Bumble Bee Atlas
- IUCN Red List: Bumble Bees
- Landscape Interactions
- Landscape Interactions: Green Corridor Pollinator Toolkit
- Landscape Interactions: Lincoln Pollinator Action Plan
- Landscape Interactions: Pollinate Northampton
- Landscape InteractionsMcKeon Farm Meadows & Hedgerows
- Minnesota Bumble Bee Atlas
- Missouri Bumble Bee Atlas
- Nebraska Bumble Bee Atlas
- Pacific Northwest Bumble Bee Atlas
- Pollinator Partnership
- Rhode Island Natural History Survey
- Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Midwest Plant Guide
- South East Bumble Bee Atlas
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education: Managing Alternative Pollinators
- The Great Sunflower Project
- The National Native Bee Monitoring RCN
- The Xerces Society: Conserving Bumble Bees
- Tuscon Bee Collaborative
- Wild Bee Garden Design
- World Bee Project
7. Databases, Datasets, & Portals
- Bee species abundance and composition in three ecosystem types at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA
- Big-Bee TCN: Bee Library
- Biological Survey of Canada – iNaturalist
- Elliot Gordon’s Bee Parasites
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
- iNaturalist
- iNaturalist: Bee Observations
- iNaturalist: California Pollination Project
- Minnesota Bee Atlas
- Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas Bell Museum
- NSF Arctic Data Center
- NSII-China National Specimen Resource Platform
- Oregon Flora Project
- Pollinators of British Columbia
- Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN)
- USFWS: The Bee Tool of North America
8. Education
- Bee Bold Mendocino
- Bees of Toronto
- Bohart Museum of Entomology: Education Programs
- Bug Camp – Biodiversity Outreach Network
- Bug Fest – The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- California Bees and Blooms: State’s 1600 Bee Species Play a Profound Role in Shaping the World We Live In
- Hymenoptera of North Carolina
- Jeremy Hemberger: Graphic art
- Museum of the Earth: Bees!
- Photo I.D of North American Bees
- Pollinator Partnership
- Pollinator Power Party
- The Australian Museum: Plant2pollinator
- The Bees’ Needs
- The Great Sunflower Project
- The New Mexico Native Bee Pollinator Project
- The Pollinator Ambassadors program
- UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab
- Vermont Atlas of Life: Vermont Bee Survey
- Wild Bees of New Hampshire
- Audubon Rockies: Cool Colorado Bees
- Bees and Their Habitats in Four New England States
- Bees of Canada – a Royal Saskatchewan Museum Initiative
- Bees of Toronto
- BugGuide
- Bombus of the World
- Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States
- Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification
- Empire State Native Pollinator Survey
- Exotic Bee ID
- Hutchings Bee Service: Native Bees of British Columbia and Yukon
- Maine Bumble Bee Atlas
- Museum of the Earth: Bees!
- Native Bee Watch: A Colorado Citizen Science Field Guide
- Ohio Bee Atlas – iNaturalist
- Oregon Bee Project
- Oregon Bee Project: Bees
- Oregon Bee Project: Oregon Bee Atlas
- Pollinator Partnership
- The Bumble Bees (Genus Bombus) of British Columbia
- The Empire State Native Pollinator Survey 2017 – 2022
- The New Mexico Native Bee Pollinator Project
- Vermont Bumble Bee Atlas
- Wild Bees of New Hampshire
- Wild bees of Slovenia
10. Identification: Keys & Guides
- Bee Identification Services List (community driven)
- Bee Mite ID: Bee-associated Mite Genera of the World
- Bee Spotter: Bumble Bee Field Guide for Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Indiana
- Bees of Florida
- Bees of Maryland: A Field Guide
- Bees of Ohio: A Field Guide
- Bees of Ohio: A Field Guide
- Bees of the Genus Dufourea Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Rophitinae) of Canada
- Bees of Toronto
- Bees, Wasps, & Ants Recording Society
- Bees, Wasps, & Ants Recording Society: Bees in Britain download
- BugGuide
- Bombus of the World
- Bumble Bee Watch: Bumble Bee Species
- Bumble Bees of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio
- Bumble Bees of South Central Ontario
- Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States
- Cleptoparasitic Bees of the Genus Epeolus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Canada
- Discover Life: Apoidea
- Eastern North American Andrenidae, bees, taxonomy, distribution, identification
- Exotic Bee ID: Exotic bee Lucid keys
- Great Plains Bumble Bee Atlas: Bumble Bee ID Guide – Dakotas
- Great Plains Bumble Bee Atlas: Bumble Bee ID Guide – Kansas
- Identification Guide to the Megachilidae Genera of Eastern North America
- Identification of Eastern North American Bee Genera in the Family Halictidae
- iNaturalist
- Leafcutter and Mason Bees of the Genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada and Alaska
- Packer Lab: Andreninae Genera of the World
- Packer Lab: Bee Families of the World
- Packer Lab: Bee Genera of Eastern Canada
- Sam Droege and Clare Maffei’s how to ‘bee’ videos
- Sam Droege’s bee resources
- Sydney hylaeine bees
- The Bee Genera of Eastern Canada
- The Bee Genera of North and Central America
- The Bees of Florida (website)
- The Bees of Florida (pdf)
- The Bees of the World – Charles D. Michener
- The Xerces Society: Bumble Bee Resources
- WiBee: The Wisconsin Wild Bee App
12. Labs, Organizations, & Projects
- Bee Spotter
- Bees, Wasps, & Ants Recording Society
- Big-Bee TCN
- Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation at York University (BEEc)
- Chilean Bees Foundation
- International Society of Hymenopterists
- Oregon Bee Project
- Packer Lab
- Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research: Logan, UT
- Pollinator Partnership
- The National Native Bee Monitoring RCN
- UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab
- Wisconsin Pollinators
- BEEc Coordinator @yorku.ca (email “SUBSCRIBE BEES YourFirstName YourLastName” to LISTSERV@YORKU.CA)
- Beemonitoring Google Group (group page)
- Beemonitoring Google Group (send a blank email to sign up)
- BOMBUS-L (home page)
- BOMBUS-L: Subscribe or Unsubscribe
- ENTOMO-L: Subscribe
- The National Native Bee Monitoring RCN
- Empire State Native Pollinator Survey – Species Accounts
- Maine Bumble Bee Atlas – Flight Periods
- MidAtlantic Native Bee Phenology
- Pollen Specialist Bees of the Eastern United States
- The influence of data type and functional traits on native bee phenology metrics: Opportunistic versus inventory records
- USFWS: The Bee Tool of North America
- British Bees on Flickr
- David Cappaert: Discover Life Uploads
- David Cappaert: Flower Insects
- David Cappaert: Focus stacked insects
- Exotic Bee ID: Gallery
- Laura Russo
- Nicolas J. Vereecken
- Packer Lab: Bee Genera of the World
- Packer Lab: Bee Tribes of the World
- Packer Lab: Bees of Canada
- Packer Lab: Bees of Malawi
- Pollinator Paradise: Bee Photo Gallery
- Pollinator Photos by Heather Holm
- USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
- A Ghost in the Making: Searching for the Rusty-patched bumble bee
- Bee extinction: Why we’re saving the wrong bees
- Blooming Bees: The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
- Bumble Bee Short Course for Community Scientists
- How parking lots could save the bees
- Introduction to Solitary Bees
- Native bees in the City of Kalamunda
- PolliNation Podcast (Oregon bee project)
- PolliNation Podcast (OSU Extension Service)
- Sam Droege and Clare Maffei’s how to ‘bee’ videos
- Save the bees! Wait, was that a bee?
- The Secret Lives of Native Bees
- What’s the Buzz about Bees?