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On-site with the property / national (garden, farm margin, or natural area with bare ground and/or an existing tunnel nest)

Native-bee nesting habitat monitoring (ground + tunnel-nest) — site / national.

Survey your site's bare-ground and tunnel-nest habitat for native-bee nesting signs. Read all of it

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  • ProofBare-ground area(s) walked, nest-entrance signs (tumuli/burrow openings) photographed and counted + Existing bare ground flagged as protect-in-place, never tilled/mulched/paved + Any tunnel nest present inspected for tube material, age, and cleaning history + Maintenance gap named against the paper-liner/annual-replacement evidence + Uncertain ID or infestation concern routed to extension/state department of agriculture
  • Open until2027-02-19
  • Levelentry
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Survey your site's bare-ground and tunnel-nest habitat for native-bee nesting signs. Most habitat guidance stops at forage plants, but a bee with nowhere to nest never benefits from a flower bed. Roughly 70% of native bee species nest in the ground and the rest nest in cavities, and a keeper who tills or mulches over an active ground-nest site, or who installs a tunnel nest and never maintains it, can undo more than the forage planting helped. A structured survey documents what is actually there, protects existing ground-nest sites, and if a tunnel nest is present, applies the specific maintenance shown to cut mite invasion rather than treating a bee hotel as a fit-and-forget fixture.

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Where
On-site with the property / national (garden, farm margin, or natural area with bare ground and/or an existing tunnel nest). Open the map
Pay
$95 proposed

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Proof
Bare-ground area(s) walked, nest-entrance signs (tumuli/burrow openings) photographed and counted + Existing bare ground flagged as protect-in-place, never tilled/mulched/paved + Any tunnel nest present inspected for tube material, age, and cleaning history + Maintenance gap named against the paper-liner/annual-replacement evidence + Uncertain ID or infestation concern routed to extension/state department of agriculture

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Level
entry: anyone can start here
Open until
2027-02-19
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How this work is done

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

  • The site's own bare or sparsely-vegetated ground, and any existing tunnel nest/bee hotel, viewed in daylight
  • A phone camera for photographing nest-entrance signs and tunnel-nest tubes
  • A ruler or tape for estimating tube/hole diameters if a tunnel nest is present
  • A notebook or form to log the survey against future seasons

Steps

  1. 1. Walk every area of bare or sparsely-vegetated ground on the site (a garden edge, a sunny bank, a path margin) and look for nest-entrance signs: small mounds of excavated soil ('tumuli') with a distinct round opening at the center, sometimes with bee activity visible on a warm, sunny day.
  2. 2. Photograph and count each active-looking ground-nest site found; note the ground cover (bare soil, sparse grass, sand) and sun exposure, since most ground-nesting bees favor warm, well-drained, sparsely-vegetated soil.
  3. 3. Record each active-looking ground-nest site as PROTECT-IN-PLACE: flag it against any planned tilling, deep mulching, irrigation change, or paving, since disturbing an active nest destroys the season's brood.
  4. 4. If a tunnel nest (bee hotel) is present on the site, inspect it without opening sealed tubes mid-season: note the material (drilled wood block, bamboo/reed bundle, cardboard tubes), the range of hole/tube diameters present, whether paper or paraffin-coated liners are used, and how long it has been since the tubes were last replaced or cleaned.
  5. 5. Compare the tunnel nest's own maintenance history against the cited evidence: no liners and no annual replacement is recorded as a real, named risk (per MacIvor & Packer 2015's finding that unmaintained hotels can favor non-native bees and concentrate parasitism), not merely a cosmetic note.
  6. 6. If the tunnel nest is due for its own maintenance window (before spring nesting begins, or after fall cocoon emergence for a removable-cocoon system), coach the specific fix: add or replace paper/paraffin liners, and replace or clean tubes annually, rather than leaving the same material in place indefinitely.
  7. 7. Record any uncertain species identification, an unusually heavy parasite or mite sign, or a suspected invasive species, and route it to the local cooperative extension office or the state department of agriculture rather than guessing or treating it directly.
  8. 8. Log the survey's findings (ground-nest sites found, tunnel-nest maintenance status, any routed concerns) in a dated record and repeat the survey each nesting season to track change over time.

What counts as done

  • Every area of bare or sparsely-vegetated ground on the site walked and checked for nest-entrance signs (small excavated-soil mounds, distinct round burrow openings), with a photo and count for each active-looking site found
  • Any active-looking ground-nest site flagged explicitly as protect-in-place: no tilling, deep mulching, irrigation change, or paving recorded as planned for that spot
  • Any existing tunnel nest (bee hotel) inspected and recorded: tube/hole material, approximate diameters present, whether paper or paraffin liners are used, and how long since the tubes were last replaced or cleaned
  • A maintenance gap or strength named against the cited evidence (no liners and no annual replacement is flagged as a real risk, not merely a suggestion) — this packet coaches the fix, it never installs it in the record as already done
  • Any uncertain species identification, unusually heavy parasite/mite sign, or invasive-species concern routed to the local cooperative extension office or state department of agriculture

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