SAMPLINGEVENT

Bee Specimens from a Malaise-Type Trap in Addison County, Vermont, USA

Latest version published by Vermont Center for Ecostudies on 07 March 2023 Vermont Center for Ecostudies
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.
Publication date:
07 March 2023
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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 245 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)
    245
  • Occurrence 
    1417

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.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Hardy S, Laramie D, Veit M, Milam J, Droege S (2023): Bee Specimens from a Malaise-Type Trap in Addison County, Vermont, USA. v1.11. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=deb&v=1.11

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: 56622750-fb1c-45a0-9deb-d7d8f6fb412b.  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

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Spencer Hardy
Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Deborah Laramie
Volunteer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Michael Veit
Biologist
Unaffiliated
Massachusetts
US
Joan Milam
Adjunct Research Fellow
University of Massachusetts,
Sam Droege
Biologist
US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Spencer Hardy
Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Who filled in the metadata:

Spencer Hardy
Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Who else was associated with the resource:

Content Provider
Spencer Hardy
Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Geographic Coverage

Near Snake Mountain, Addison County, Vermont, USA

Bounding Coordinates South West [44.036, -73.316], North East [44.084, -73.264]

Taxonomic Coverage

wild bees

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2019-07-20 / 2021-09-18

Project Data

https://val.vtecostudies.org/

Title Vermont Atlas of Life
Identifier VAL
Study Area Description Vermont, USA
Design Description https://val.vtecostudies.org/

The personnel involved in the project:

Principal Investigator
Kent McFarland

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
Quality Control Identifications done by Spencer Hardy, Michael Veit, Joan Milam, and Sam Droege

Method step description:

  1. 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
https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=deb