https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbutterflies Historic Butterfly Specimens in the UVM Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies conservation biologist
Norwich Vermont 05055 US
kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org 0000-0001-7809-5503
Bryan Pfeiffer Vermont Center for Ecostudies associate biologist
Norwich Vermont 05055 US
Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies conservation biologist
Norwich Vermont 05055 US
kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org 0000-0001-7809-5503
2022-04-11 eng From 2002 to 2007 volunteer butterfly enthusiasts spent thousands of hours in the field in an effort to record the status and distribution of Vermont butterflies, the first systematic statewide butterfly atlas to be undertaken. As part of this atlas, historic records were digitized from regional collections. Despite their potential importance, butterfly specimens in the UVM Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection had never been catalogued systematically. In January of 2004 we obtained permission to bring 40 volunteers into the collection for a one-day sorting and determination workshop. Volunteers worked in teams, first sorting pinned specimens by family and then to genus and species. After sorting, volunteers worked in pairs to add a unique identification number to each pinned specimen on a separate label, identify each to species, and enter the label data into a spreadsheet. Only people with experience in species identification made determinations, and any difficult or questionable determinations were referred to experts. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vermont-butterfly-survey/ State of Vermont, USA -73.916 -71.191 45.182 42.553 butterflies and giant silkmoths from Vermont superfamily Papilionoidea butterflies family Saturniidae giant silk moths notPlanned Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies conservation biologist
Norwich Vermont 05055 US
kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org 0000-0001-7809-5503
see intro State of Vermont Mostly from student collections held in the museum. see intro Vermont Atlas of Life Kent McFarland 0000-0001-7809-5503 https://val.vtecostudies.org/ https://val.vtecostudies.org/ https://val.vtecostudies.org/ https://val.vtecostudies.org/
2022-04-11T19:47:56.041+00:00 dataset McFarland K, Pfeiffer B (2022): Historic Butterfly Specimens in the UVM Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas. v1.0. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbutterflies&v=1.0 McFarland, K.P. and S. Zahendra. 2010. The Vermont Butterfly Survey, 2002 – 2007: A Final Report to the Natural Heritage Information Project of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. 298 pp. dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.827269.v1