Along with the Gateway Arch, St. Louis has something else to add to the list of things that are uniquely St. Louis.

“One thing that's really cool about St. Louis, St. Louis has a historically high bee diversity, in part because of our unique sort of ecological placement,” said Nicole Miller-Struttmann, the Laurance L. Browning Jr. Chair and Associate Professor at Webster University. “We have lots of different habitats in a close area. And that influences what bees are found in the city.”

In 2019, Miller-Struttman co-created the Shutterbee Citizen Science Program, a St. Louis-based research study focused on learning more about the bee population in the St. Louis area.

“We're interested in understanding how gardens are supporting that diversity within the St. Louis region.

The Shutterbee project spanned four years. It recruited citizen scientists to help with the visual documentation and research.

The study led to the finding of a rare parasitic bee in Belleville, Illinois!


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