Submit a count
Your count sheet
Finished a fifteen-minute count? Enter your tallies below — one submission for each plant you watched. Your name and email are optional, and there are no species names to remember.
Uploading is closed for 2026
The 2027 count is Friday through Monday, August 20-23, and the upload form opens right here as the first day begins. Counted more than one plant? Submit a separate count for each. Need a refresher? Read the how-to or the identification guide.
Upload your counts
That's a wrap on the 2026 count.
Thank you to the thousands of you who watched a plant, counted every visit, and sent in your numbers. Uploading is closed until next August — here's what you can do until the next count.
Next count days
August 20-23, 2027
Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday.
In the meantime
What you can do until then
Explore the results
Half a million insects were counted in 2025. Dig into the totals by category, state, and county.
Learn to identify
Study the field marks for all eight groups now, so you're quick and confident on count day.
Plant a pollinator garden
The best time to plant is now. Grow the blooms you'll want buzzing with visitors next August.
Take the pollinator course
Seven live sessions with entomologists and coordinators sharpen your counting — and earn a certificate.
Don't miss the day
Get notified when the portal opens
We'll send one reminder a week before the count and another the morning the upload portal opens — plus a few pollinator stories in between. Never spam.
A refresher
How a count works
Three steps, fifteen minutes. This is exactly what you'll do on count day.
Watch
Pick one blooming plant and watch it for 15 minutes.
Count
Tally every pollinator that lands, in eight simple groups.
Submit
When the portal is open, upload your counts right here.
After you count
Print your “I Counted!” stickers
Lady beetles are the theme for the 2026 “I Counted” stickers. The download is a PDF that can be used with Avery Template #5294.
The 2025 count
The last count, in numbers
Mark your calendar
August 20-23, 2027
Watch · Count · Upload right here.