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

Spencer Hardy1, Deborah Laramie1, Michael Veit2, Joan Milam3, Sam Droege4

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, ; 2 Unaffiliated, , United States; 3 University of Massachusetts,, ; 4 US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 

Corresponding author(s): Spencer HardyDeborah LaramieMichael VeitJoan MilamSam Droege

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Resource Citation

Hardy S, Laramie D, Veit M, Milam J, Droege S (2023): Bee Specimens from a Malaise-Type Trap in Addison County, Vermont, USA. v1.12. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=deb&v=1.12

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Samplingevent

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Vermont, USA
Design description: https://val.vtecostudies.org/

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: wild bees

Common names: Bees

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Near Snake Mountain, Addison County, Vermont, USA
Coordinates: 44°2'9.6''N and 44°5'2.4''N Latitude; 73°18'57.6''W and 73°15'50.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: July 20, 2019 - September 18, 2021

Methods

Method step description: Bees were frozen and later pinned and identified following procedures from the Vermont Wild Bee Survey.
Study extent description: 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
Sampling description: 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
Quality control description: Identifications done by Spencer Hardy, Michael Veit, Joan Milam, and Sam Droege

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bee Specimens from a Malaise-Type Trap in Addison County, Vermont, USA
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=deb
Publication date of data: 2023-08-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-02-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset