In this episode, we learn about efforts to discover
flower/bee partnerships, an app for monitoring the populations and distribution of turtles and other reptiles, and a new water quality testing technique that
uses cotton tampons.
Projects and websites included in this podcast:
Ask A Bumblebee
Bees In Your Backyard
HerpMapper
What The Herp?
David M. Carroll
iNaturalist
Seek by iNaturalist
Tampling: Optical Brightener Water Quality Sampling
Image Credits (all public domain, except where noted):
Green Sea Turtle Hatchling
Pete Leary/USFWS
https://flic.kr/p/2pzRDd3

Galearis spectabilis, Showy Orchis
Helen Lowe Metzman
https://flic.kr/p/VSQspD
 
Micranthes virginiensis, Early saxifrage
Helen Lowe Metzman
https://flic.kr/p/XpVyfo
 
Echinacea purpurea, Coneflower
Helen Lowe Metzman
https://flic.kr/p/NDE3qc
 
Green-fringed orchid
Helen Lowe Metzman
https://flic.kr/p/2hWNCyv
 
Cercis, Redbud
Helen Lowe Metzman
https://flic.kr/p/27ipYfq
 
Yellow Corydalis
Helen Lowe Metzman
https://flic.kr/p/McNQTa
 
Honey bees in yellow pumpkin flower
Credit: Kirsten Strough/USDA
https://flic.kr/p/2maRLeD
 
Rusty Patched Bumblebee
Credit: Sarah Warner/USFWS
https://flic.kr/p/We58Uu
 
Backyard Bees of North America poster
BeesInYourBackyard.com
 
Sam Droege at desk
https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/usgs-native-bee-inventory-and-monitoring-lab-eastern-ecological-science-center
USGS Media
 
Floating fuzzy bumblebee and flower
James Johnstone
https://flic.kr/p/2adZcpU
CC BY 2.0 DEED
Attribution 2.0 Generic

Eastern Box Turtle
Shendandoah National Park
https://flic.kr/p/fC5iYg
 
Tampling images and video
Kelly Albus, Ben Hendrickson, Desiree Jackson, and Miranda
Waite
 
SciStarter Theme:
Podcast Theme
Kevin Hartnell

Additional Music:
Mess
Steven Combs

The Confluence
Gagmesharkoff

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