Pollinators of Somerville training

Today, I attended a training for a new citizen science project co-run by Green & Open Somerville and others. I was assigned a one block area in which I’ll be photographing pollinators on flowers. The idea is to begin to build a census of the types of bees, butterflies and other insects in Somerville and the flowers that they like most. I’ll only need to spend about an hour per month on it. Should be fun!

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