Bees in the UVM Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection

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Description

Vermont specimen records of bees, excluding Bombus and Xylocopa, from the Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection at the University of Vermont. Specimens were identified and labels digitized between 2019 and 2021 as part the Vermont Wild Bee Survey. Identifications done by Sam Droege and Spencer Hardy, additional species-level identifications will be added as they are completed. See Bombus and Xylocopa records here: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/155ad75a-6721-4fc5-9c94-4eef447ee650

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 1,017 records.

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 (2025). Bees in the UVM Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection. Version 1.13. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbees&v=1.13

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: d156cb49-ba5d-45fc-898e-3de6002d2efd. 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

Spencer Hardy

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Project Coordinator

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

PO Box 420

05055 Norwich

shardy@vtecostudies.org

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Kent McFarland

Point Of Contact

Biologist

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

PO Box 420

05055 Norwich

kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org

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

Zadock Thompson Zoological Collections

uvm.vtzt@gmail.com

https://www.uvm.edu/vtnaturalhistory/zadock-thompson-zoological-collections

Geographic Coverage

Vermont and northeastern US

Bounding Coordinates	South West [41.377, -76.113], North East [45.829, -70.488]

Taxonomic Coverage

Bees

Order	Hymenoptera

Project Data

https://val.vtecostudies.org/

Title	Vermont Atlas of Life
Identifier	VAL

The personnel involved in the project:

Kent Mcfarland

Principal Investigator

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

Sampling Methods

Various - a mix of incidental student collections and specific sampling events. Most from unknown sampling methods.

Study Extent	Primarily Vermont with some specimens from northeastern, US
Quality Control	Most species level identifications by Sam Droege. Metadata transcribed by volunteers and checked by Spencer Hardy.

Method step description:

Collection Data

Collection Name	Zadock Thompson Zoological Collections
Parent Collection Identifier	UVM

Specimen preservation methods	Pinned

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description	Eventually this dataset will be merged with the Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection Occurrence Dataset hosted by iDigBio: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/68bcf659-9aa6-43a3-aed3-4e1140faa1b5#registration
Alternative Identifiers	d156cb49-ba5d-45fc-898e-3de6002d2efd
	https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbees