Karen Wetherill

Long-Term Monitoring of Native Bees and Flowering Phenologies at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

This study is designed to look at community or population level fluctuations in bees over the 
season and on a long term basis, over years. Funnel traps are a very low maintenance method of 
trapping pollinators with zero human bias. The bias of the traps is that the color determines the 
species and sexes that it attracts. Therefore the traps provide relative abundance that can be 
compared over the season or year, but individual species cannot be compared within a season. This 
study is designed to be compared with the data from SEV137 Phenology, to look at spatial and 
temporal patterns within pollinator and flowering plant communities.