Run Your Own Count Event

This guide aims to help interested groups, organisations and individuals to run their own count event in conjunction with the Wild Pollinator Count.
We encourage you to tailor your event to suit your interests and audience.

You can download the entire kit as a single PDF, or access just the parts you are interested in as individual files.

Whole Kit

Run your own count kit (3.3 MB)

cover image for run your own pollinator count event kit — Run your own event kit (complete)

Kit contents as individual files

Tips for planning and running a count event (1.2 MB)
Count tally sheet (0.1 MB)
How to count and frequently asked questions (0.2 MB)
Flyer with room for your event details (0.6 MB)
Quick guide to insect identification for the count (0.4 MB)

Tips for planning and running a count event

Tally sheet image — Printable tally sheet

WPC How to count — How to count pollinators and FAQs

Wild Pollinator Count event flyer - custom — Promote your Wild Pollinator Count event by adding the details to this flyer.

Except where otherwise noted, content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC-by-NC-4.0). You are welcome to use it for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. Read more on this here.

5 thoughts on “Run Your Own Count Event”

Paul Rymer says:

April 8, 2018 at 6:48 am

Do you have any tools for plant identification?

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1. Karen Retra says:
  
  April 9, 2018 at 2:30 pm
  
  Hi Paul, We don’t, but we’re also happy for participants to use a common name or to send us a photo of the plant, if they’d like help for a submission. Or maybe you’re suggesting you know one that we should link to?
  
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Catherine McDonald says:

April 28, 2019 at 10:20 am

Hi Karen, we are looking to do a pollinator count in November this year (2019) and are hoping to get a local school engaged. We are looking for an educator who might like to give a talk about pollinators and their importance to a group of primary school students. Can you recommend anyone who might be interested in this? We are based in Sunshine Victoria.

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Julie Burr says:

February 10, 2020 at 12:54 pm

Hi, Karen. I’m in WA and use your pollinator count as a class activity for my Year 10 Animal Production course. I realise that some of our pollinators differ to yours but I’ve endeavoured to find supplementary information re local pollinators. Thank you for providing this wonderful project.

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Joanne McVey says:

November 11, 2021 at 12:12 am

Hi, love your cause, but total amateur beginner, is there a way I can find out if our local community has a count event I can join? Love to know how I can get on board.

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