Citizen Science Project: Using the Web to Collect and Represent Authentic Data
Pollinator Watch!
I did my observation at a community garden at Mountain View Elementary, located at 1380 Navajo St, Salt Lake City (see below).
Photo's of the Bee's Observed
Discussion/Further Questions
Comparing my data to State Averages documented on the Great Sunflower Project's website, my garden has a slightly higher bee count then the average documented count in Utah. Utah is documented at 2.1 bees per hour per flower. Since my data was taken from a cluster of sunflowers, a total of about 8 sunflowers in the cluster, my data averages 4.860 bee's per flower per hour. This brings up some important questions for us:
- How many people in Utah actually contributed to the state average count? Does this number under-represent the actual count of bees in Utah?
- Or, is there a certain reason my bee count was so high?
- Could it be contributed to the fact that it was counted at a vegetable garden?
- Or, could it be because the sunflowers were grouped together in clusters rather then being far apart?