Gloucester County, Bee City Committee and Clean Community have partnered to hold a BioBlitz that began in August and will run until Sept. 30.
“For those who aren’t sure what a BioBlitz is, it’s basically a fun challenge to catalog data on the living things in our area, within a short period of time,” explained Sherry Kosakowski, Clean Community Coordinator and liaison for Bee City.
The project can be found on the iNaturalist app under Parks for Pollinators 2025: Gloucester County VA. Through the app you can participate in making observations and identifications of local pollinators and plants.
“When you’re participating, you basically just take a picture of a pollinator, it could be a bee, a butterfly, a bat, or a plant, it could be native or any plant that you see,” said Kosakowski. For any observations that participants are unsure of, others that have joined the project on the app can help identify. “I think that is really something special, because you don’t have to sit there and th...