Great Southeast Pollinator Census takes place Aug. 18-19, and you can help - AJC
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We’re all busy as bees these days, but if you can carve out just 15 minutes on Aug. 18 or 19, you can be a citizen scientist and help entomology researchers in the region.
It’s time for the Great Southeast Pollinator Census. The event, now in its fifth year, is open to anyone in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
All you have to do is go outside, find a plant in bloom, count the insects that land on it during a quarter of an hour, then upload your data to the census website, gsepc.org.
The project is spearheaded by Becky Griffin, who applies her master’s degree in plant protection and pest management as a community and school garden coordinator and pollinator health associate for the University of Georgia Extension.
