How to Capture Bees with Nets for Bee Monitoring Programs

Nash Turley shows techniques for catching bees using handheld insect net and getting bees into collection jars. This video is intended for participants in official bee monitoring programs where all bees will be properly pinned, labeled, identified, and stored in insect collections. Bees should NOT be collected and killed for fun or as a hobby, only for scientific purposes. You can read more about the ethics of collecting insects in this paper titled "The Insect Collectors Code": academic.oup.c...
To learn more about the Pennsylvania Bee Monitoring Program check out our website: lopezuribelab....
Also check out Sam Droege's video on netting bees: • How to Net Collect Was...
Finally, thank you to Christine Gambino for filming this video and enduring a brutal onslaught of mosquitoes.