Find all the details to get involved with BeeWalk here
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Read the latest BeeWalk Annual Report
See the resources page for live online training opportunities
Have a go at our BeeWalk bumblebee identification quiz
BeeWalk is a national recording scheme run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to collect data to monitor the abundance of bumblebees on transects across Britain. This data collection would be impossible without volunteer BeeWalkers, who identify and count the bumblebees they see on a monthly walk (a fixed route of around 1 to 2 km - you choose where it goes) from March to October.
The information collected by BeeWalk volunteers is integral to monitoring how bumblebee populations change through time, and allows us to detect early warning signs of population declines, as well as contributing to important long-term monitoring of bumblebee population changes in response to changes in land-use and climate change.
Anyone can become a BeeWalker – all you need is some basic identification knowledge and a spare few hours or so every month to walk your transect and submit your sightings to the website.
The National Biodiversity Data Centre run an equivalent scheme across the whole of Ireland
This website uses an Indicia Data Warehouse hosted by the Biological Records Centre (a group within the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology).