Description
This is a checklist of the known species of wild bees recorded in Vermont, USA. The checklist is derived from literature and verified records from specimens, surveys, photographs, and other verified records by the Vermont Wild Bee Survey, a project of the Vermont Atlas of Life. This is the first comprehensive checklist and conservation assessment of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) fauna of the State of Vermont. This checklist of 351 species (plus 1 morphospecies) is based on >79,000 open-access data records available from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), nearly all (98%) of which were identified by an author or trusted collaborator, including 100% of the 24,270 research-grade observations from the community science platform iNaturalist. Through fieldwork and digitization of museum collections, we documented nine species previously unreported from New England and as many as 24 novel host–parasite relationships. Overall, Vermont shares much of the bee fauna of neighboring states, with a notable contingent of northern and western species not regularly found elsewhere in New England or New York. Conservation rankings indicate that as many as 60% of the bee species in the state are vulnerable (S3 or lower). Detailed species accounts are provided as supplementary material, which cover the phenology, state-wide distribution, conservation status, and floral preferences of Vermont’s bee fauna.
Data Records
The data in this checklist 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 376 records.
2 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, Veit M, Milam J, Ascher J, Sharp N, Hallworth M, Ferguson M, Richardson L, Nicholson C, Ricketts T, Gibbs J, McFarland K (2025). Checklist of the Wild Bees (Apoidea: Anthophila) of Vermont, USA. Version 1.9. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Checklist dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=wild-bee-checklist-vermont&v=1.9
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: 950853df-adf7-4c5a-b955-266bb6a194df. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventoryregional
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Geographic Coverage
State of Vermont, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.634, -73.63], North East [45.105, -71.345] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Hymenoptera: Apoidea
| Superfamily | Apoidea (wild bees) |
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Project Data
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
| Title | Vermont Atlas of Life |
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| Identifier | VAL |
| Funding | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
| Study Area Description | State of Vermont, USA |
| Design Description | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
Sampling Methods
Checklist derived from verified records in literature, specimens in public and private collections, collections and photographs from surveys and projects, photographs from crowd-sourced projects.
| Study Extent | State of Vermont, USA |
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| Quality Control | All records were verified by expert taxonomists |
Method step description:
- The checklist was part of an overall collection of occurrence records from current and historic projects and collections via the Vermont Wild Bee Survey.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 950853df-adf7-4c5a-b955-266bb6a194df |
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| https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=wild-bee-checklist-vermont |