How to submit to the project

Find out how to submit your sightings to the project.

By now you will probably have found about:

We hope that you have been able to go out looking for bees in your local area, and encouraged your colleagues and service users to do the same.

If you are now in a position to submit an entry, please do so via the form below.

The Art of Mindful Beeing - submission form

  • We’d like you to take a photograph of anything that looks like a bee (for help with bee identification see our resources page).
  • Send us your photo via this submission form and note where it was taken - if possible with grid reference or What3Words location.
  • Please include your best guess as to what species your bee is. Don’t worry if you see something and you’re not sure if it’s a bee or what sort of bee it is, just send us the photo and we will tell you what it is.
  • We will curate an online gallery of all your wonderful photos. We hope to produce an attractive online digital map to show the geographical distributions of individual species of bee.
  • Use some of the resources to see if you can identify your bee and find out more about its life. By the end of the summer, we hope that you’ll know the differences between a bumblebee a solitary bee and a honeybee. And that you’ll be able to identify five or six of common species of bee.
  • In the autumn we will have an online event where we will share some of the most interesting photographs you have taken. There will be a talk celebrating the life of bees and a session on how to involve bees and other insects in nature-based therapy, and how to get you, your staff and patients) involved in insect conservation.

Please tell us where this photo was taken - including the grid reference or What3Words location if possible.

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If you know (or think you know) the species of bee you have photographed, please provide details.

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