Bumble bees and Large Carpenter bees in the UVM Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Vermont Center for Ecostudies on Feb 22, 2024 Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Publication date:
22 February 2024
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

All bumble bee (Bombus) and Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica) specimens in the Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection. Digitized and identified between 2012 and 2019 by Leif Richardson and Spencer Hardy as part of the Vermont Bumble Bee Atlas

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

McFarland K, Hardy S (2024). Bumble bees and Large Carpenter bees in the UVM Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection. Version 1.11. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=uvmbombus&v=1.11

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: 155ad75a-6721-4fc5-9c94-4eef447ee650.  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

Contacts

Kent McFarland
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Conservation Biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
05055 Norwich
VT
US
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503
Spencer Hardy
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • User
Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
05055 Norwich
VT
US
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271
Leif Richardson
  • Content Provider
Ecologist
University of Vermont
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4855-5737

Geographic Coverage

United States

Bounding Coordinates South West [17.979, -132.188], North East [60.24, -59.062]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Genus Bombus
Species Xylocopa (virginica)

Project Data

No Description available

Title Vermont Atlas of Life

The personnel involved in the project:

Kent McFarland
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503

Sampling Methods

Unknown - collection is a variety of collections, including many from UVM students and professors

Study Extent Mostly Vermont and northeastern US
Quality Control Final determinations by Leif Richardson

Method step description:

  1. Unknown

Collection Data

Collection Name Zadock Thompson Zoological Collections
Specimen preservation methods Pinned

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Richardson, L. L., K.P. McFarland, S. Zahendra, and S. Hardy. 2018. Bumble bee (Bombus) distribution and diversity in Vermont, USA: a century of change. Journal of Insect Conservation 23: 45–62. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10841-018-0113-5

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 155ad75a-6721-4fc5-9c94-4eef447ee650
https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=uvmbombus