Bees@Schools is a program based out of the University of Guelph that provides school classrooms with hands on scientific experience while collecting valuable data. Each participating school receives a wild bee nest box in the spring that is installed throughout the summer. In the fall, nest boxes are sent back to the University of Guelph’s Centre for Biodiversity Genomics . Here, the contents of the nest boxes will be analyzed using DNA barcoding to investigate the distribution of wild bees in Canada and
This map shows our participating schools from2023 in orange, 2022 in yellow, 2021 in dark green, 2020 in light green, and 2019 in blue! In 2022, we had 125 nests returned to us! In 2021 we had 174 nest returned, 93 returned in 2020 and during our 2019 pilot year, we had 42 successfully installed nest boxes.
We would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, their right to self-determination and sovereignty and their relationships to all aspects of creation since time immemorial. We acknowledge the diversity of Indigenous Nations, territories, and communities and each of their unique relationships to land . Through our collective work, we acknowledge with great respect and give voice to all life on planet earth and honour the sacred relationships between peop