Dear iNaturalist colleagues, I am reaching out to you trying to find some guidance on the best way to do a project I have in mind. The idea is a project where people can follow the phenology of solitary bee colonies. This colonies are made normaly of approx 20-100 nests, occupying an area of 1-2 s…

[image] gonzalosmia: Is there any way of building a project where people create “colonies” as an observation [image] gonzalosmia: The colony, I want it to be an observation by itself. You can make an observation of the colony. [image] gonzalosmia: and then people can complete the …

Hi Thomas, thanks for the response!. How can I make an observation of the colony if I do not know the bee specie? I am interested in summing the observations around a colony, so I can see the phenology of that very specific square meter of land. I have not find how to do that in a traditional proj…

I suppose you would put as specific of an ID as you can (maybe just “bees”). If you want to group different species/individuals in the same colony, you could make a project for each colony under an umbrella project. But that would probably get tedious. It would likely be better to make some sort of …

If you don’t know the bee species, you can identify it as “Anthophila” or another higher-order taxon. You don’t have to know the genus or species. In a traditional project, you can search through the observations on iNaturalist and manually add observations to the project, if your project is for ve…

Just some food for thought: I’ve approached similar situations like this, where I’m wanting to study a very specific natural phenomenon, and there’s a project that studies a broader version of the same phenomenon, I will work within the larger project and use observation fields to track the informat…

Thanks a lot for the advice given. I will consider incorporating it to a bigger project like “Ground nesting bees”. But I am still after a method for involving the community/nearby observers, to go to the colony and take a look to see if it is active or not. This is why I was thinking o making a pro…

You can write a journal post - and link to it in a comment to invite others to join you at that particular bee colony. On your own obs you can link to your journal post in the Notes up top.

Loved the idea. I will explore it as I did not know about the Journal option. Thanks!

Random example from one of my trusted taxon specialists (who used one of my moth pictures) https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/wynand_uys It is worth putting in the effort, once! Since you can then use the link repeatedly.

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