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On-site with the property / Montreal, QC (garden, park, farm, or natural area with blooming forage)

Bumble Bee Watch community-science photo survey — Montreal, QC.

Photograph a Montreal-area bumble bee's face, abdomen, and thorax without handling it for Bumble Bee Watch. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $100 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • ProofMulti-angle photo set: face, abdomen, thorax + Bee never handled during photography + Submitted with date, location to bumblebeewatch.org or the app + Self-proposed ID marked tentative + Pending official expert-verifier confirmation
  • Open until2027-02-25
  • Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Photograph a Montreal-area bumble bee's face, abdomen, and thorax without handling it for Bumble Bee Watch. The Montreal Insectarium, a founding partner of the project, is headquartered here.

Offer to pay $100. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A volunteer near Montreal crouches beside a flowering shrub, taking a burst of macro photos of a bumble bee's face and thorax before it moves to the next bloom.

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

Where
On-site with the property / Montreal, QC (garden, park, farm, or natural area with blooming forage). Open the map
Pay
$100 proposed

This job is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price, not money held for the worker. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash: recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof
Multi-angle photo set: face, abdomen, thorax + Bee never handled during photography + Submitted with date, location to bumblebeewatch.org or the app + Self-proposed ID marked tentative + Pending official expert-verifier confirmation

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

Level
entry: anyone can start here
Open until
2027-02-25
Posted by
0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

Safety, read before you claim

This is photo documentation only, never handling or collection, and a bee resembling an ESA-listed species such as the rusty patched bumble bee is photographed at a distance only. A sting reaction beyond mild local swelling routes the participant to medical care immediately.

The full safety list for this job:

  • A bee resembling an ESA-listed species is flagged for priority official expert review, never netted or handled to confirm identification.
  • Pesticide-use signs or suspected nest disturbance route to the property owner or manager, or on agricultural sites, the local cooperative extension office.
  • This packet is independent of and not affiliated with the Montreal Insectarium: named as the real, verified founding partner institution of Bumble Bee Watch, 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

  • A smartphone or digital camera with macro/close-up and burst/continuous shooting modes
  • A free Bumble Bee Watch account (bumblebeewatch.org) or the Android/iOS app
  • A garden, park, farm, or natural-area site with blooming forage
  • A notebook or the app's built-in form for date/location/flower-visited notes

Steps

  1. 1. Create a free Bumble Bee Watch account at bumblebeewatch.org, or install the free Android/iOS app, before the first survey.
  2. 2. Walk the site (garden, park, farm, or natural area) during bloom and active bumble bee flight (warm, calm daylight hours) and locate a foraging bumble bee without disturbing it.
  3. 3. Photograph the bee from multiple angles using macro/close-up mode and burst/continuous shooting to catch a sharp frame — always include one photo that captures the face (facial coloration and structure are load-bearing identification characters), plus top and side views of the abdomen and thorax.
  4. 4. Record the date, location (GPS or address), and — optionally — the flower species visited; never net, chill, handle, or collect the bee to get a better photo.
  5. 5. Upload the photo set and observation data to bumblebeewatch.org or the app; optionally use the site's interactive identification key (abdomen color pattern, thorax band/dot presence) to propose a tentative species.
  6. 6. Treat any tentative ID as unconfirmed until Bumble Bee Watch's official expert verifiers review and confirm the species from the submitted photos.
  7. 7. If the bee resembles an ESA-listed species (e.g. the rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis), note the resemblance, keep the standard respectful-distance/no-handling rule, and flag the record for priority expert review; never attempt to confirm a listed species by capture.

What counts as done

  • Photo set includes a face shot plus top and side abdomen/thorax views, taken with macro/burst mode where available
  • Date, location, and (optionally) flower visited recorded and submitted through bumblebeewatch.org or the official app
  • Confirmation recorded that the bee was never netted, chilled, handled, or collected during photography
  • Any self-proposed species ID recorded as tentative, pending Bumble Bee Watch's official expert-verifier review

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

What is promised, and what is not

Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.

Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.

An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.

Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.

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Other acts: vote, pledge, fund

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