A citizen science project was developed to encourage homeowners and others to build and monitor artificial nesting habitats for solitary bees and wasps. Social media applications were used to recruit participants and provide forums for social discussion and participation. Between April 2012 and July 2014, 268 individuals and 19 groups registered for the Native Buzz project at www.ufnativebuzz.com for a total combined membership of 655 participants. Participants were located in 30 counties in Florida as well as 38 other states and 10 additional countries. Participants had designed, built and monitored 68 artificial nest sites by July 2014. During the two-year study period, the sites collectively contained over 10,657 potential nests constructed from a variety of materials and established within a variety of ecosystems. Comments solicited from participants were used to identify future needs, motivating factors and challenges associated with implementing an "insect-oriented" citizen science project. Results of this study indicate that technology-based citizen science projects of this type can effectively recruit non-scientist citizens to create artificial nesting habitats for solitary bees and wasps and provide a useful platform for helping entomological researchers collect solitary bee and wasp nesting data from a large geographic range via data provided by volunteer citizen scientists.