Meet the team behind IDmyBee!

IDmyBee is a project that relies on people. Here is a list of the different contributors.
We hope it will grow with time.

Adrien Perrard
Founder of IDmyBee.
Assistant professor at the Université de Paris, in France, he studied the evolution of hornets and other Vespidae before to switch to research related to bees.

Denis Michez
IDmyBee curator of Melittidae.
Professor at the Université de Mons, in Belgium, he is a specialist of Melittidae and a leading researcher in bee conservation in Europe.

Bertrand Schatz
Research Director at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive in Montpellier, France, he leads the research group POLLINECO, federating french research on pollination, and helped to push forward IDmyBee.

Elie Saliba realized in 2019 a first version of the identification tool 'IDmyBee - Genera' during an internship with A. Perrard.
Andrew Polaszek shared his interactive key (Lucid) to identify bee-genera to produce the first version of the identification tool IDmyBee - Genera.

You want to join the team and tackle one or several challenges of wild bee identification? Please contact us.

Occasional contributors to IDmyBee:

KEYS:
IDmyBee - Genera
Jean-Marie Frenoux (March 2020).

WEBSITE:
Website Genera
Jan Smit (July 2020) - Nomada
Justyna Kierat (June 2020) - Lasioglossum

Website Bibliography
Matthieu Aubert (August 2020)
Eric Dufrene (July 2020)
Mickael Kuhlmann (July 2020)
Justyna Kierat (June 2020)
Rafael Carbonell Font (March 2020) greatly contributed to our bibliography by sharing an extensive reference list on wild bee identification.
Peter Stalleger (Feb. 2020).