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Census Results

2025 Census Results

Participants from garden clubs, master gardener groups, Extension offices, public gardens, businesses, scout troops, families, and individuals all came together to “protect our pollinators one count at a time” — breaking our previous participation record.

By the numbers

  • 27,048 Census counts were submitted
  • 1,132 new pollinator gardens were created as part of the Census project
  • 594 educators indicated that they used the Census as part of their STEM curriculum
  • 59 participants counted on oregano plants to be shared with our colleagues at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in London

Results data

The 2025 results, including counts across all eight insect categories — bumble bees, carpenter bees, honey bees, small bees, wasps, flies, butterflies and moths, and other insects — are shown in the tables below and available in full as a detailed spreadsheet.

2025 Great Southeast Pollinator Census results by state: a table of insect counts across the eight categories for each participating state. The full data is available in the downloadable spreadsheet.2025 Census participation: a table of the number of counts submitted in each participating state.

Number of counts submitted in each participating state.

State results

State-specific results are available on these pages:

Highlights from 2025

Deb Mackey, a Pollinator Protector from Florida, named the 2025 Census Grand Marshal.

Deb Mackey, a Pollinator Protector from Florida, was named the 2025 Census Grand Marshal.

Cover of the childrens book The Great Pollinator Count

A book inspired by our Census, written by Susan Richmond, was published this year.

Census coordinators holding their university flags during a visit to London.

Many Census coordinators shared information about our Census with an international audience in London.

Bethany O Rear, the Alabama Extension agent who led Alabama joining the Census.

Alabama joined the Census, led by Extension Agent Bethany O’Rear.

The 2025 I Counted participation sticker.

The 2025 “I Counted” participation sticker.