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Help gather the necessary data to effectively track and conserve bumble bees. Anyone is welcome to participate and help contribute to a better understanding of bumble bee needs. All observations are non-lethal to the bees and training is provided.

CBMN is a long-term community science project led by Butterfly Pavilion that harnesses the power of volunteers to observe and record butterflies in open spaces and parks multiple times per season, gathering essential data that land managers use when making conservation decisions. No experience necessary!

Want to support pollinator research? Join this CU Boulder Museum of Natural History-based community science project to support bee research! Help transcribe bee specimen labels into an online database so they can be accessed by researchers around the world! A laptop or tablet with Internet access is essential, no experience required. Sign up to learn about upcoming, in-person events at and around CU Boulder! Volunteers will receive a an official certificate of thanks for their time.

This popular birding app created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology helps to track local populations and bird migration patterns across the United States.  Submitting photographs or even just recording sightings of Colorado hummingbirds can be a really wonderful way to contribute to community science.  You can create an account online at www.ebird.org or download the app directly to your phone.

As part of Colorado Pollinator Month, CPN hosts the Big Day of Bugs at the Denver Botanic Gardens each June, and encourages all Coloradans to collect observations of pollinators and the plants that they visit within Colorado, USA through the entire month of June. If you have photos from June, you can upload them anytime, just mark the date of the observation during June.

If you'd like to help contribute observations, you can upload your pollinating insect photos. Moreover, you can link your pollinator observation to the plant that they visit by including an 'Associated Species' in the additional observational field!

Having these associations can help us document and track pollinators and the plants that they depend on across our state!

People & Pollinators Action Network breaks down key findings, insect profiles, and more from the Department of Natural Resources study.

With a new online format, the Landscape for Life™ curriculum has been updated and refreshed through a rigorous review process in partnership with CSU. All content remains grounded in the principles of the national Sustainable Sites Initiative and is designed with home gardeners, landscaping companies, clients of landscaping companies, municipal staff, and HOA boards. These foundational courses walk you through the “why” of sustainable landscaping and provide hands-on activities to bring theory into practice to answer the “how."

Published in March 2025 this study shows that we are losing butterflies at a rate of 1.3% per year in the contiguous US: more than one-fifth of our butterflies disappeared between 2000 and 2020. Perhaps more alarming, over 40% of assessed species fell in numbers by 50% or more—and two dozen species suffered more than 90% losses.

State of the Butterflies in the United States presents a summary of those findings, species-level information on population trends for each of seven regions, and most importantly, a roadmap for how we can recover butterflies in the places we live, work, and play.