How To Submit Your Data
Watch a short clip from a past workshop, or read the step-by-step instructions below.
All bumble bee and habitat data will be submitted to the community science website Bumble Bee Watch.
1. Keep track of the time you spend on this part, you will enter this as volunteer hours into Bumble Bee Watch.
2. Curate your photos. Decide which photos you are going to upload for each bee entered on your data sheet. Make sure they are clear and the lighting is good. You can submit up to 5 photos per bee, so choose the clearest, best lit photos if you took more than that. If you are unsure of the plant you caught the bee on and have a photo of that plant, upload that plant as one of your 5 photos.
3. Login to Bumble Bee Watch.
1. Keep track of the time you spend on this part, you will enter this as volunteer hours into Bumble Bee Watch.
2. Curate your photos. Decide which photos you are going to upload for each bee entered on your data sheet. Make sure they are clear and the lighting is good. You can submit up to 5 photos per bee, so choose the clearest, best lit photos if you took more than that. If you are unsure of the plant you caught the bee on and have a photo of that plant, upload that plant as one of your 5 photos.
3. Login to Bumble Bee Watch.
6. Enter your location information.
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8. Enter Habitat Assessment Information
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11. Start Entering Bumble Bee Information
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13. Identify Your Bee
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Other Ways to Submit Data
We greatly prefer that you try to submit your data online. Similar research projects have found that this ultimately increases accuracy and improves the quality of the information collected. We also understand that sometimes this is not possible, or there is something about your data that is unique and may not fit into the web-based forms that we've established. If you have questions about alternative forms of data entry, contact bumblebees@xerces.org.