Butterflies in My Backyard (BIMBY) 2024 report
Published by:
David Suzuki Foundation
Authored by:
Winnie Hwo,
Michelle Tseng,
Stephen Deedes-Vincke,
Sue Elwell,
Kirstyn Eckhardt
The community science project Butterflies in My Backyard, hosted by the David Suzuki Foundation in partnership with UBC ecologist Michelle Tseng, has invited people in B.C. to help document butterflies in the province since 2022 and went national this year.
Close to 500 volunteers, called Seekers, from 10 provinces and Yukon and Northwest Territories, made over 35,000 observations and documented 231 species of butterflies on iNaturalist.
“BIMBY continues to push what is possible in terms of the quality of data collected by community scientists,” Tseng said. “People in Canada from coast to coast to coast have the capacity and willingness to contribute meaningfully to butterfly conservation. The David Suzuki Foundation and BIMBY have made it possible to harness this energy. Together, we are collecting data and generating previously unknown knowledge crucial to butterfly conservation in Canada.”
As the BIMBY 2024 season wraps up in November, look back at all the achievements this year in the “BIMBY 2024 Report.”
