The field notebook
One honest look every week.
Complete the same small survey each week. A week with no sightings is still useful evidence.
No weeks match this view.
Historical community observations
What has been seen locally?
Every research-grade bee and non-ant wasp species recorded in the selected period inside the San Antonio–Schertz corridor. Bold names are the 12 most frequently recorded for that selection.
Recorded activity by month
Observation counts, not population estimates
BeesWasps
Recorded does not mean complete.
Observers photograph conspicuous insects more often than tiny or difficult taxa. Bold means frequently recorded in this dataset—not abundant, harmless, or guaranteed to appear.
Keep your own copy
Back up the field season.
Because entries remain on this device, export them periodically. JSON preserves photographs; CSV is convenient for a spreadsheet but omits image files.
Complete backup
Download every checklist, note, and compressed photograph.
Spreadsheet export
Download one row per sighting, with week, date, identification, plant, behavior, and note.
Restore
Import a Weekbook JSON backup. Matching weeks will be replaced by the imported copy.
Transparent boundary
Know what the checklist can—and cannot—say.
The local species explorer uses iNaturalist research-grade records in a fixed regional bounding box. It excludes ants, separates bees by taxonomic ancestry, and treats the remaining narrow-waisted Hymenoptera as wasps. Full query details, limitations, privacy behavior, and source links are recorded on the methods page.