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How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project
In the “contributory” citizen science project INSIGNIA, beekeepers carried out non-invasive sampling of their own honey bee colonies for an environmental investigation of pesticide residues and pollen plant origin. We surveyed several traits and attitudes of 69 of the volunteering beekeepers from te...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13379-7 |
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description | In the “contributory” citizen science project INSIGNIA, beekeepers carried out non-invasive sampling of their own honey bee colonies for an environmental investigation of pesticide residues and pollen plant origin. We surveyed several traits and attitudes of 69 of the volunteering beekeepers from ten countries. We found that their motivation was similar to that found in previous studies of environmental volunteer motivation, with helping the environment and contributing to scientific knowledge being strong motivators. Our results suggest that receiving laboratory analysis results of the samples from their colonies is the most meaningful way of appreciation for beekeepers, but is not their primary reason for participation. A citizen scientist beekeeper in this study spent on average 10.4 working hours on the project during a sampling season. Our study indicates that most of our volunteers would participate in similar future investigations, or would recommend participation to other beekeepers, underlining the potential of beekeepers as citizen scientists in honey bee research. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-13379-7. |
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spelling | pubmed-83024922021-07-27 How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project Gratzer, Kristina Brodschneider, Robert Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Research Article In the “contributory” citizen science project INSIGNIA, beekeepers carried out non-invasive sampling of their own honey bee colonies for an environmental investigation of pesticide residues and pollen plant origin. We surveyed several traits and attitudes of 69 of the volunteering beekeepers from ten countries. We found that their motivation was similar to that found in previous studies of environmental volunteer motivation, with helping the environment and contributing to scientific knowledge being strong motivators. Our results suggest that receiving laboratory analysis results of the samples from their colonies is the most meaningful way of appreciation for beekeepers, but is not their primary reason for participation. A citizen scientist beekeeper in this study spent on average 10.4 working hours on the project during a sampling season. Our study indicates that most of our volunteers would participate in similar future investigations, or would recommend participation to other beekeepers, underlining the potential of beekeepers as citizen scientists in honey bee research. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-13379-7. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-03-16 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8302492/ /pubmed/33728609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13379-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gratzer, Kristina Brodschneider, Robert How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
title | How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
title_full | How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
title_fullStr | How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
title_full_unstemmed | How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
title_short | How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
title_sort | how and why beekeepers participate in the insignia citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13379-7 |
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