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Citizen science can expand our knowledge of biodiversity and enhance conservation programs by adding species records and associated data. This is the case for bees—the main group of pollinators—with millions of observations on iNaturalist.
Here we ask if spontaneous observations made by citizen scientists on this platform provide a good picture of bee diversity in terms of taxonomic coverage (i.e...