Bees Stopped Buzzing During the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
A study conducted during the 2017 total solar eclipse in North America found that bees remained active during partial-eclipse phases, but they essentially ceased flying during totality.
Citizen Scientists Collect 29,000 Mosquitoes in Germany and Help Detect Spreading Populations of Invasive Species
By Edward Ricciuti Armchair scientists nimble enough to catch insect lightning in a jar have helped the professionals map distribution of invasive mosquitoes in Germany—and they even detected three previously […]
Citizen Science Delivers “Unprecedented View” of Monarch Butterfly Parasitoids
Thanks to citizen volunteers, scientists now know more than ever about the flies that attack monarch butterfly caterpillars. Since 1999, volunteers participating in the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project have collected […]
Got Moths? Celebrate National Moth Week and Global Citizen Science
By David Moskowitz and Liti Haramaty Spot any underwings lately? These popular moths, known for revealing their true, vibrant colors when their wings are fully spread, will be spotlighted this […]
Citizen Scientists Needed for Bumble Bee Research in National Parks
By Eric Rayfield In July 2015 entitled, researchers are launching an intense bumble bee project called “The Blue Ridge Bumble Bee Megatransect.” I’ll be joining Dr. Jennifer Geib of Appalachian […]
Citizen Scientists Needed for the Vanishing Firefly Project
Join this citizen science project to help track where fireflies live and how they are affected by humans
Predatory Wasps and Citizen Scientists are Taking on the Emerald Ash Borer
By Kevin Fitzgerald The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a pest species that has killed tens of millions of ash trees and has the potential to kill most of […]
Study Confirms Effectiveness of Cheap, Simple Traps for Citizen Science Project
By Kaine Korzekwa By asking members of the public to capture and send beetles in for research, scientists at the University of Florida are using “citizen science” to get a […]
Citizen Science Project Wants YOU to Collect Cabbage White Butterflies
By Anne Espeset This past summer a few graduate students, including Sean Ryan (University of Notre Dame) and Anne Espeset (University of Nevada, Reno), launched The Pieris Project, a citizen […]
Rookies use Cookies in Science Alliance to Track Ants’ Advance
In November, 2013 we posted an article about Andrea Lucky, an entomologist at the University of Florida who’s using citizen science to encourage non-scientists to contribute to her research through […]