Gretchen LeBuhn, San Francisco State University associate professor of biology, is soliciting the help of thousands of "citizen scientists" to collect data on the health of pollinating bees. This is the announcement from the website The Great Sunflower

By watching and recording the bees at sunflowers in your garden, you can help us understand the challenges that bees are facing.
It takes less than 30 minutes.
It's easy.
Free Sunflower seeds for planting.
No knowledge of bees required!
Enter your bee counts online or send us your paper form.
We would love to have you join us; let's help our most important pollinators together!

Visit The Great Sunflower
to learn more and to sign up, or call 650-725-9914. Kits are ready to send out to the first 10,000 participants in time for the plants to flower by National Pollinators Week, June 23 to 28.