How does beescaping.online find plants in your region? 🐝

1. A global dataset for native plants is used to find plants native to your region.
2. A global dataset for species-species interactions is used to map interactions between seven biological families that represent bees ("Andrenidae", "Apidae", "Colletidae", "Halictidae", "Megachilidae", "Melittidae" and "Stenotritidae") and flowring plants (Angiosperms/Magnoliophyta). The interactions were filtered down to the following types: "pollinates", "visitsFlowersOf", "interactsWith", "visits", "mutualistOf" and "symbiontOf". Other interaction types were removed from the data.
3. Beescaping filters out native plants that don't have any bee-nteractions.
4. When you look for plants in a certain region, beescaping uses the latitude and longitude of that point to determine the region it belongs to, and then, using the data explained above, assembles a list of native flowering plants that have interactions with bees close to your area.
5. The results contain a list of 10 plants - randomized, not necessarily the ones with the most interactions. The results also provide a list of bee species - not necessarily native bee species - that have interacted the most with each plant.