U of I Extension hosts I-Pollinate Citizen Scientist Webinar April 3rd in Lincoln

 

[March 20, 2019] 

LINCOLN 

University of Illinois Extension is calling all lovers of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators that keep our crops and gardens growing to join scientists in tracking their distribution and habitat use across the state, from the comfort of your home, school, or community garden.

I-Pollinate is a citizen-science research initiative through the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, designed to collect state-wide pollinator data. Volunteers can join up to three research projects and collect data on monarch butterfly egg and caterpillar abundance, pollinator visitation to ornamental flowers, and state bee distributions.

This program will be offered as a live webinar training with the scientists on Wednesday, April 3 at 3 p.m. Webinars will be held at the U of I Extension Buildings, 700 S. Airport Drive, Springfield, and 980 N Postville Drive, Lincoln. To reserve a packet of handouts at one of these locations, pre-register at https://web.extension.illinois.edu/lms/ . 

To register to listen to the training from home, visit https://web.extension.illinois. edu/registration/?RegistrationID=20006  . A recording of the training will be shared on the project website.

To learn more about becoming a citizen scientist with I-Pollinate and sign up to join, visit the project website at publish.illinois.edu/pollinatorproject. 

[Jennifer Fishburn]