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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

...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

@crosswordman it’s from a Pileated Woodpecker. For A fun app and way to contribute biodiversity sightings to #vtatlasoflife check out @inaturalist

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In the millions of posts on iNaturalist, users are unearthing new species, tracking invasive insects and making incredible discoveries. Scientists are taking note.
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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

@Halfdan it happens a lot here in Vermont, USA where this species is an introduced invasive species. Unfortunately it is likely responsible for the demise of a bunch of our formerly common native species. #vtatlasoflife

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

With a 6 inch (15cm)wingspan, the Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)like a bat flying towards you at dusk. #MothMonday #vtatlasoflife

With a 6 inch (15cm)wingspan, the Polyphemus Moth looks (Antheraea polyphemus)a bat flying towards you at dusk. #MothMonday #vtatlasoflife

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/

Congrats to Craig Hunt for winning the October 2022 Photo-observation of Month for the #vtatlasoflife on #iNaturalist ! His photo of a banded Peregrine Falcon received the most favs of any iNaturalist observation in #Vermont .

Color bands on left leg revealed that it was a female, and the combo indicated e. NA. He sent photos and as many numbers on metal band he could read to Banding Lab and learned it was banded nest in Lewiston, Maine in 21 May 2021.

It was a fun year on #inaturalist ! https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2022/kpmcfarland #vtatlasoflife

#vtatlasoflife Checklist dataset updated @gbif

Checklist of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea) of Vermont, USA. Version 1.7. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. @kpmcfarland @bryanpfeiffer https://doi.org/10.15468/5zrw7j

With the addition of two new species, the Vermont Butterfly Checklist is now comprised of 113 species in 5 families.

New species: Northern Oak Hairstreak - https://val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/community-scientist-discovers-new-butterfly-species-for-vermont
Cloudless Sulphur - https://val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/new-butterfly-species-for-vermont-reported-to-ebutterfly

With the help of a legion of volunteers, VCE’s #vtatlasoflife has spearheaded groundbreaking wildlife atlas projects from butterflies to bumblebees and online crowdsourced projects like @eButterfly, Vermont eBird, and iNaturalist Vermont.

Last week, Kent McFarland, director of VAL, was recognized on behalf of the team’s work with a 2022 SciSTARter Boost Award. Ten individuals received this inaugural award for their outstanding work with community science. Read more at https://val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/val-awarded-scistarter-boost-prize/

Over 350 wild bee species call #Vermont home, but 55 of those species need #conservation action. A new report from the VT Center for Ecostudies (VCE), in collaboration with Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept, provides the first comprehensive assessment of VT bees. The VT State of Bees report, released last month by biologists working on VCE’s #vtatlasoflife, was created using >55 K observations of bees from 100s of volunteers and biologists across #VT. #pollinators https://val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/state-of-vermonts-wild-bees-report-assesses-conservation-status-for-first-time/

A little squeeze of a Common Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum) for #FungiFriday. Check it out on #vtatlasoflife #inaturalist at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1981657

@JMSVT I read your bio and we’d love to have you add any biodiversity sightings to the #vtatlasoflife on #inaturalist if that interests you. Great place to learn and help us record #vermont biodiversity. https://val.vtecostudies.org/crowdsource/

It’s getting late in the season but here’s one that was on my house today. And now immortalized at iNaturalist.org #vtatlasoflife