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

Sampling event
Version 1.11 published by Vermont Center for Ecostudies on Mar 7, 2023 Vermont Center for Ecostudies
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7 March 2023
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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.

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  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

Spencer Hardy
  • Content Provider
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Deborah Laramie
  • Originator
Volunteer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Michael Veit
  • Originator
Biologist
Unaffiliated
Massachusetts
US
Joan Milam
  • Originator
Adjunct Research Fellow
University of Massachusetts,
Sam Droege
  • Originator
Biologist
US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

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:

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