Description
The solitary parasitoid wasp Cerceris fumipennis provisions its nests with beetles from the Family Buprestidae. Nests formed by these solitary wasps are often located in non-social colonies within hard-packed, sandy, and exposed soils. Female wasps forage for prey on sunny summer days when many species of buprestid beetles are active. Taking buprestid beetle prey from wasps intercepted as they approached their nests is used to survey for the presence of many buprestid species. Biologists and citizen science volunteers surveyed C. fumipennis colonies for Buprestidae from 2009-2016. Additionally, native buprestids were taken from Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) purple traps and Green Lindgren funnel traps deployed around the state from 2008 - 2016. Historical records were also recorded from collections at the University of Vermont and the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation collections.
Data Records
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hanson T, Bohne M (2021): Vermont Buprestidae Survey. v1.7. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=buprestidae&v=1.7
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vermont Center for Ecostudies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6a24bbed-dbf7-4784-9ee7-a4f7b5479572. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
State of Vermont
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.553, -73.608], North East [45.12, -71.279] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Family | Buprestidae (Jewel Beetles) |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Vermont Atlas of Life |
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| Identifier | VAL |
| Study Area Description | State of Vermont, USA |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
The solitary parasitoid wasp Cerceris fumipennis provisions its nests with beetles from the Family Buprestidae. Nests formed by these solitary wasps are often located in non-social colonies within hard-packed, sandy, and exposed soils. Female wasps forage for prey on sunny summer days when many species of buprestid beetles are active. Taking buprestid beetle prey from wasps intercepted as they approached their nests is used to survey for the presence of many buprestid species. Biologists and citizen science volunteers surveyed C. fumipennis colonies for Buprestidae from 2009-2016. Additionally, native buprestids were taken from Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) purple traps and Green Lindgren funnel traps deployed around the state from 2008 - 2016. Historical records were also recorded from collections at the University of Vermont and the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation collections.
| Study Extent | State of Vermont |
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| Quality Control | E.R. Hoebeke, Associate Curator of the Collection of Arthropods at Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, determined the Vermont buprestids collected as part of a EAB survey in the Northeast. We retained 20 specimens of each species (when possible) and sent the rest to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
Method step description:
- See sampling description.
Bibliographic Citations
- Trish Hanson, Mary R. Burnham, Michael J. Bohne, and E. Richard Hoebeke "New State Records of Non-Target Buprestidae (Coleoptera) Detected in Emerald Ash Borer Traps in Vermont, USA," The Coleopterists Bulletin 73(3), 757-760, (22 September 2019). https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.3.757 https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.3.757
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 6a24bbed-dbf7-4784-9ee7-a4f7b5479572 |
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| http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=buprestidae |