Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) Surveys in Vermont

Sampling event
Latest version published by Vermont Center for Ecostudies on Mar 14, 2024 Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Publication date:
14 March 2024
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) and Eastern Carpenter Bee surveys (Xylocopa virginica) in Vermont, USA from 2016 and 2019 to 2021. These (and others) were first surveyed in 2012 and 2013 (data available at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/7ffba224-5620-4dfd-a43e-9783fa414933) during the Vermont Bumble Bee Atlas (http://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas). Semi-annual (May and July) monitoring at a subset of the original survey routes began in 2022. Non-target species were recorded opportunistically.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 992 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
992
Occurrence 
3321

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Hardy S, McFarland K (2024). Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) Surveys in Vermont. Version 1.16. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=bavt2016&v=1.16

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vermont Center for Ecostudies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b31d76f9-c6ff-4324-9984-c6bd8a1938c9.  Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

Spencer Hardy
  • Originator
Biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
05055 Norwich
VT
US
Kent McFarland
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
conservation biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Vermont

Geographic Coverage

Vermont

Bounding Coordinates South West [42.618, -73.586], North East [45.228, -71.411]

Taxonomic Coverage

Bumblebees and Eastern Carpenter Bee. Other wild bees were incidentally collected or recorded at the discretion of surveyor.

Genus Bombus, Xylocopa

Project Data

http://val.vtecostudies.org/

Title Vermont Atlas of Life
Identifier VAL
Study Area Description Sites in Vermont
Design Description https://figshare.com/articles/Vermont_Bumble_Bee_Survey_-_Manual_for_Participants/6327230/1

The personnel involved in the project:

Kent McFarland

Sampling Methods

Records are either specimens, photos, or field identifications. Collection events fall into 3 categories. Casual visits are where effort was not recorded and/or not every individual was collected/photographed/recorded. Site visits are complete checklists for any amount of time at any site. Roadside surveys are 10 minute sampling events where every individual was collected and/or recorded. These roadside surveys were done in 'Priority blocks' that were previously sample as part of the 2012-2013 Vermont Bumblebee Atlas. These surveys were done by volunteers and staff as follow up to standardized surveys done in 2012 and 2013. Roadside surveys were done along stretches of town roads in ‘priority survey blocks’, 1/8th of an USGS topographic quadrangle randomly selected for previous Vermont citizen science inventories (Renfrew 2013), where traffic was generally light and floral resources were often available. In most every case, the sites in this survey correspond to sites visited in the 2012/13 effort. Roadside surveys were 10 minutes long, with observers collecting every bumblebee using a net and collecting vial with soapy water. Experienced observers comfortable with field IDs of most Bombus counted, identified and/or photographed Bumblebees instead of collecting.

Study Extent Vermont
Quality Control Specimen determinations by Sara Zahendra, Spencer Hardy, and Leif Richardson.

Method step description:

  1. Protocol follows that of the Vermont Bumblebee Atlas: https://figshare.com/articles/Vermont_Bumble_Bee_Survey_-_Manual_for_Participants/6327230/1

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers b31d76f9-c6ff-4324-9984-c6bd8a1938c9
91e7a2cb-7fc7-475b-9768-168b020216c7
https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=bavt2016