Meet the Yellow-Banded Bumble Bee
This summer, Science North has teamed up with Wildlife Preservation Canada and University of Guelph to be a test site for their nest box project! The yellow-banded bumble bee is one of the many...
Category: Citizen Science
Bumble Bee or Honey Bee?
I asked some young artists I know to draw me a bee to test out a theory and here are the works of art I received! Lovely, lovely! As you can see they are...
What is Citizen Science?
Doing science isn’t just for scientists! There are tons of ways in which you can participate in real science projects by collecting data, making observations and spreading the word.
An International Approach to Mosquito Research
What is the world’s deadliest animal? You might think that the title belongs to a species of venomous snake only native to South America - or even a venomous spider found in Australia. However,...
Jupiter’s vanishing wonder: Juno at the Red Spot
Jupiter’s great red spot is shrinking! Could it disappear completely? The great red spot is Jupiter’s most iconic feature: a storm once three times the size of Earth, visible in a backyard telescope, with...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…no wait…it’s a MIGRATORY bird!
Happy Migratory Bird Day everyone!! It’s finally starting to feel like spring! For many this means spring cleaning, getting bikes out from storage and yard work…but for me it means the migratory birds are...
Bee Update!
And the “bee” goes on! So what’s new with the overwintering bees experiment at Science North you ask? To start off, all of the colonies we’re monitoring are alive! This is great news, and...
What are the honeybees doing in winter?
Normally when we think of bees, we think spring time, flowers, summer buzzing noises…but what about in winter? Where do the bees go? Honeybees stick out the winter months inside their hive. They group...
Citizen Science to Put Science North on the World Map!
If you haven’t celebrated World Space Week (October 4-10) this week it isn’t too late! The theme this year is Remote Sensing – Enabling Our Future. By collecting cloud data for the International Science...
