Description
These are all the bees caught as bycatch in a homemade horsefly trap in a rural yard in Addison County, Vermont, USA. Specimens were removed daily with bees frozen and then later pinned, and identified as part of the Vermont Wild Bee Survey at the Vermont Atlas of Life.
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 453 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.
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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hardy S, Laramie D, Veit M, Milam J, Droege S (2025). Bee Specimens from a Malaise-Type Trap in Addison County, Vermont, USA. Version 1.14. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=deb&v=1.14
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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 56622750-fb1c-45a0-9deb-d7d8f6fb412b. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Samplingevent
Contacts
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http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271
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Geographic Coverage
Near Snake Mountain, Addison County, Vermont, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [44.036, -73.316], North East [44.084, -73.264] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
wild bees
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2019-07-20 / 2021-09-18 |
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Project Data
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
| Title | Vermont Atlas of Life |
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| Identifier | VAL |
| Study Area Description | Vermont, USA |
| Design Description | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Detailed trap design can be found here: https://bioone.org/journals/northeastern-naturalist/volume-24/issue-2/045.024.0204/Seasonal-Abundance-of-Tabanus-calens-and-Other-Tabanidae-Diptera-Near/10.1656/045.024.0204.short
| Study Extent | All specimens came from a two-tiered, homemade horsefly trap in a rural yard. Specimens were collected daily during peak horse and deer fly abundance (May - Sept) in 2019 - 2021. Specimens from May and June of 2019 were not retained, though many were recorded on iNaturalist.org |
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| Quality Control | Identifications done by Spencer Hardy, Michael Veit, Joan Milam, and Sam Droege |
Method step description:
- Bees were frozen and later pinned and identified following procedures from the Vermont Wild Bee Survey.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 56622750-fb1c-45a0-9deb-d7d8f6fb412b |
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| https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=deb |