New to wild honeybees? You do not need any prior experience. You need only curiosity, patience, and a willingness to watch closely. You can begin before you find a single wild honeybee nest. Explore the living map to see where custodians have documented wild colonies, watch the short Atlas introduction, and learn how to recognize and follow a wild nest in your area. When you are ready, register below and we will guide you the rest of the way.

As a custodian, you help make wild honeybees visible. Each nest you find and follow adds to a shared record that reveals where honeybees choose to live, how long they thrive, and what their choices teach us about healthy, resilient landscapes. Your observations join a growing body of long-term research, conservation planning, and education around the world.

Step in alongside many others around the world, each tending the wild honeybees of their own place and adding their observations to a shared and growing map. Come with your curiosity and openness to learn, and we will show you how to find, document, and revisit wild honeybee nests in your area, one step at a time.

The Atlas is a free tool for people of every age and place, for individuals, families, schools, beekeepers, and local communities everywhere, with open data access for academic researchers, NGOs, and community organizations. This openness asks for mutual respect and honest care.

The Atlas community is a living network of shared discovery, and every custodian strengthens it. Our ethos is one of generosity and service. We share for collective understanding and for the protection of wild honeybees. Like the bees themselves, we work in concert, each contribution forming part of a larger whole that reaches beyond any single node. Through this collaboration, the Atlas grows into more than a map. It becomes a reflection of our connection with each other and with the living world we serve.

Custodian Signup

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This will be your unique identifier within the community, and attached to each nest and report your submit, and will be available in the data available to other custodians. **It cannot be changed later.**
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