I'm back here at Fort Huachuca and actually sampling this time around. We're halfway through our week and have completed 5 out of 8 sites. Our technique has much improved over the past 2 days!
This is our new collection method: the Bug Sucker 2008 (created by Robert and Neil). No more backpack vacs for us, and no more wimpy dustbusters... this thing actually works!
Pam, Rick, Robert, and I - ready to sample our first plot.
And off they go... We're each walking a transect and collecting everything on flowers.
Some of the neat pollinators we've collected so far (native bees and butterflies).
These European honey bees are stealing pollen from each other (kinda funny, eh?)
And this is how we'll store our samples, once they've been identified (these are just practice samples that we'll be using for our reference collection).
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