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

Native-bee nesting habitat monitoring (ground + tunnel-nest) — Toronto, ON.

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

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $95 proposed.

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Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • ProofBare-ground areas walked with nest entrances photographed + Nest-entrance signs (tumuli, burrow openings) counted per area + Existing bare ground flagged protect-in-place, never tilled/mulched/paved + Any tunnel nest inspected for tube material, age, cleaning history + Maintenance gap named against the paper-liner/annual-replacement evidence + Uncertain ID or infestation routed to extension/state agriculture department
  • Open until2027-02-25
  • Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Survey a Toronto-area site's bare-ground and tunnel-nest habitat for native-bee nesting signs. This standard's own bee-hotel honesty citation surveyed almost 600 bee hotels here, and both its authors worked from York University's Biology Department.

Offer to pay $95. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A surveyor near Toronto kneels on a patch of bare sandy ground, photographing a ring of tumuli beside a tape measure, then lifts the paper liners from a tunnel-nest block.

A description of this kind of work, not a record that it happened here.

Where
On-site with the property / Toronto, ON area (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 areas walked with nest entrances photographed + Nest-entrance signs (tumuli, burrow openings) counted per area + Existing bare ground flagged protect-in-place, never tilled/mulched/paved + Any tunnel nest inspected for tube material, age, cleaning history + Maintenance gap named against the paper-liner/annual-replacement evidence + Uncertain ID or infestation routed to extension/state agriculture department

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level
entry: anyone can start here
Open until
2027-02-25
Posted by
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Safety, read before you claim

No special training is needed. Observation and maintenance coaching only: never handle, excavate, or collect any nesting bee or disturb a ground-nest site to confirm activity, and open a tunnel nest only in its recommended cleaning window, never mid-season.

The full safety list for this job:

  • The 70/30 ground-vs-cavity nesting split is Xerces Society's own published estimate, stated on their page without a cited primary source — reported as their estimate, never as an independently verified statistic.
  • A bee hotel is never assumed to be a conservation benefit on its own: MacIvor & Packer 2015 found introduced bees and elevated native-bee parasitism at a large share of surveyed hotels, so an unmaintained tunnel nest is named as a real risk, not a neutral decoration.
  • The paper-liner mite-reduction finding (Joshi et al. 2020) was demonstrated in managed Osmia cornifrons orchard nests specifically; this packet applies it as the best available evidence, not as an independently confirmed result for every tunnel-nesting species or bee-hotel design.
  • The recommended cleaning window is before spring nesting begins; a tunnel nest is never opened mid-season while cells may still be provisioning.
  • This packet is independent of and not affiliated with York University or Drs. MacIvor and Packer: named as the real, verified institutional home and fieldwork site of this standard's own bee-hotel honesty citation, not an endorsement or partnership.
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/provincial department of agriculture

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