It’s 11th January 2018 as I write this, sadly my last day of work for the Blooms for Bees project (though I will stay in touch with the project and continue to support Gemma and Judith in any way I can). One of the big winter jobs for Judith and I was analysing the data you all sent in. As verifier, I was interested in the number of bumblebee species recorded and how well our citizen scientists were able to identify them. I was able to achieve both by comparing the provisional identifications with the photographs submitted by users. So here are some stats:

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