Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) Surveys in Vermont

Spencer Hardy1, Kent McFarland2, Kent McFarland3

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, 05055, Norwich, United States; 2 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, ; 3 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, PO Box 420, 05055, Norwich, United States

Corresponding author(s): Spencer Hardy (shardy@vtecostudies.org)Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org), Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)

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Resource Citation

Hardy S, McFarland K (2022): Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) Surveys in Vermont. v1.10. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=bavt2016&v=1.10

Abstract

Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) and Eastern Carpenter Bee surveys (Xylocopa virginica) in Vermont, USA from 2016 and 2019 to 2021. These (and others) were first surveyed in 2012 and 2013 (data available at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/7ffba224-5620-4dfd-a43e-9783fa414933) during the Vermont Bumble Bee Atlas (http://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas). Future repeated surveys will be appended to this dataset annually. 

Keywords: Samplingevent, Samplingevent

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Sites in Vermont
Design description: https://figshare.com/articles/Vermont_Bumble_Bee_Survey_-_Manual_for_Participants/6327230/1

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=bavt2016

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Bumblebees and Eastern Carpenter Bee. Other wild bees were incidentally collected or recorded at the discretion of surveyor. 
Taxonomic ranks
Genus: Bombus, Xylocopa

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Vermont
Coordinates: 42°37'4.8''N and 45°13'40.8''N Latitude; 73°35'9.6''W and 71°24'39.6''W Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: Protocol follows that of the Vermont Bumblebee Atlas: https://figshare.com/articles/Vermont_Bumble_Bee_Survey_-_Manual_for_Participants/6327230/1
Study extent description: Vermont
Sampling description: Records are either specimens, photos, or field identifications. Collection events fall into 3 categories. Casual visits are where effort was not recorded and/or not every individual was collected/photographed/recorded. Site visits are complete checklists for any amount of time at any site. Roadside surveys are 10 minute sampling events where every individual was collected and/or recorded. These roadside surveys were done in 'Priority blocks' that were previously sample as part of the 2012-2013 Vermont Bumblebee Atlas. 

These surveys were done by volunteers and staff as follow up to standardized surveys done in 2012 and 2013. Roadside surveys were done along stretches of town roads in ‘priority survey blocks’, 1/8th of an USGS topographic quadrangle randomly selected for previous Vermont citizen science inventories (Renfrew 2013), where traffic was generally light and floral resources were often available. In most every case, the sites in this survey correspond to sites visited in the 2012/13 effort. Roadside surveys were 10 minutes long, with observers collecting every bumblebee using a net and collecting vial with soapy water. Experienced observers comfortable with field IDs of most Bombus counted, identified and/or photographed Bumblebees instead of collecting.
Quality control description: Specimen determinations by Sara Zahendra, Spencer Hardy, and Leif Richardson.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Standardized Bumblebee (Bombus) Surveys in Vermont
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=bavt2016
Publication date of data: 2022-03-16
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-01-29
Hierarchy level: Dataset