Big Wasp Survey

Lead organisation: Royal Entomological Society (Governmental)

Launched in 2017; annual survey in UK. Public sample social wasps using beer traps across the UK in late August. Social wasps are key predators and natural pest controllers yet we know very little about their distributions and abundances. This information is critical as wasp populations are thought to be declining at similar rates to other key insect groups, such as pollinators.

Additional information

Source Inventory of environmental citizen science projects
Web site http://www.bigwaspsurvey.org/
Contact point mailto:info@bigwaspsurvey.org
Start/end date 2017 - Unknown
Still active? No

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