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Make sure to get the latest update for Android and iOS! BeeMachine mobile now includes location and date in the classification process for improved accuracy. You can also share images from your image gallery straight to BeeMachine.

So proud of the work done by my students in the Pollinator Ecology Lab at K-State!

BeeMachine now uses 🗺️location & 📆date to improve predictions. These details allow BeeMachine to better distinguish b/w similar looking species & provide IDs that are more relevant to your area. Now active on the web & coming soon to mobile. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

I am so excited about this upcoming publication about the Bees of Pennsylvania! 🐝 Stay tuned; we will have a page online where you can purchase this book in July! @nashturley.bsky.social @napoleonicento.bsky.social @stephanidae.bsky.social

This seems like the perfect occasion for my favorite fun fact about Volterra! From his wikipedia page: "In 1922, he joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and in 1931 he was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty."

New research on how non-native honeybees alter visitation networks in a peri-urban environment. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

Cool stuff!

Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐

Rewatching this at bat - an all-timer - never fails to brighten my day. youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI?...

Pretty sweet stache on this Southern Plains bumble bee. Bombus fraternus

Map bug fixed for iOS devices! Get the update in the App Store

UPDATE: BeeMachine is now available in 40 different languages!🔓🌐

New work out today on how we can use #AI to ID some of the more challenging #bees from images of whole pinned bees and just their wings. Look for more on this soon. @beemachine.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

t-SNE visualization of the 354 pollinator taxa in the latest BeeMachine algorithm. Each point represents a test image and clusters represent images with similar learned features. Labels are placed over the class centroid. Points are color coded by taxa.

⚡️Important #update for BeeMachine users⚡️This update helps with "lost" sightings and with performance issues on Android devices.

BeeMachine Update!!!

Undergrad summer internships available in the REEU program at K-State! Gain research experience & learn about cutting edge technology in ag/plant sciences. Lots of projects to choose from including computer vision and #AI for #pollinator monitoring. www.plantpath.k-state.edu/academics/un...

asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.

Bad news from Gothic: 35 years of insect decline in a pristine mountain meadow. Great work by Nora Underwood & Brian Inouye (my former PhD advisers!) et al. https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-insect-decline-rmbl-gothic-colorado/

Bees loving the sunflowers today!

Did you know that the BeeMachine mobile app supports multiple languages? Learn about bees in: 日本語 Español Français Italiano English More languages coming soon!

Help us track bee populations around the world. BeeMachine is our citizen science app for AI-based bee identification. Just take a picture of a bee and BeeMachine will do the rest. Your sightings will contribute to a database that we can use to develop conservation strategies for bees.

Negotiating access. Brown belted bumble bee and two-spotted longhorn meeting on a Gaillardia flower