BC Master Melittology Bingo aid here (unofficial):

These aids will involve, for the most part, you being signed into the web platform of iNaturalist on a computer rather than a mobile device. You may want to have your iNat username and password close at hand.
 
My interpretation of the card is that it mentions the 2025 Bee Season, so for me, that begins in March and ends before next March when the new collection usually starts. I believe it is up for interpretation?

Bees

If you are wanting to ID 100 bees on iNat (Project: "NBSBC Bee Tracker) (Bonus points: 500+):
 


If you want to find out how many bees you have identified since March 1st, 2025 (you can adjust the dates in the URL - year-month-date) change the ident_user_id=johnascher to your user name (for myself, I would put ident_user_id=bobmcd): 

https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications.html?user_id=johnascher&taxon_id=630955&d1=2025-03-01&place_id=7085&own_observation=false

Make sure your location setting is for British Columbia and not just your preferred regional setting. 
The above searches are only for identification of observations made on or since the date indicated. Identification made during this time period of observations made prior to that time period will not be counted. I've reached out for advice on how to change this search to be broader.

Plants

If you are wanting to identify 100 Plants on iNat (Project: "Master Melittology: Outside of Oregon") (Bonus points: 500+):

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=casual%2Cneeds_id%2Cresearch&verifiable=any&project_id=99706&place_id=any

If you want to find out how many Master Melittology: Outside of Oregon plants you have identified since March 1st, 2025 (you can adjust the dates in the URL - year-month-date) change the ident_user_id=bobmcd to your user name:

https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications.html?user_id=bobmcd&project_id=99706&taxon_id=47126&d1=2025-03-01&own_observation=false
 

To find the answer for from how many native plant species have you collected bees since March 1st, 2025 (you can adjust the dates in the URL - year-month-date) change the ident_user_id=bobmcd to your user name:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?native=true&project_id=99706&subview=map&user_id=bobmcd&verifiable=any&view=species&d1=2025-03-01&hrank=species

To check from how many Families of plants you have collected Bees:
I'll put together a tutorial.

Volunteer Service Record 

Check your service records here: https://member.melittologist.org/v_menu/ 

Natural Resource Districts:



 

Cards are here: 





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