Surveys of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) community in northern hardwood forest and wildlife clearings using pan traps

Spencer Hardy1, Tim Duclos2, Michael Veit3, Joan Milam4

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, ; 2 Merck Forest & Farmland Center, ; 3 Unaffiliated, , United States; 4 University of Massachusetts,, 

Corresponding author(s): Spencer HardyTim Duclos (tim@merckforest.org)Michael VeitJoan Milam

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Resource Citation

Hardy S, Duclos T, Veit M, Milam J (2023): Surveys of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) community in northern hardwood forest and wildlife clearings using pan traps. v1.4. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=merck&v=1.4

Abstract

Two year study of bees in wildlife clearing and adjacent Mesic Red Oak Northern Hardwood Forests of the Merck Forest and Farmland Center. Bee bowls were deployed at 15 sites in early May of 2020 and 2021. Sites were either at the edge of wildlife clearings or at predetermined distances from these clearings within the Mesic Red Oak Northern Hardwood Forest natural community.

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=merck

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Bees

Common names: Bees

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Merck Forest & Farmland Center, Vermont, USA
Coordinates: 43°12'32.4''N and 43°24'18''N Latitude; 73°12'46.8''W and 72°56'56.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 2, 2020 - May 14, 2021

Methods

Method step description: Survey locations were pre-determined using QGIS and a natural community map of Merck Forest and Farmland Center. Three sites were placed on the edge of wildlife clearings, 3 at 75 meters from these clearings, 4 at 150 meters, and 4 at >300 meters within the forest.
Study extent description: All sampling occurred within, or adjacent to, Mesic Red Oak Northern Hardwood Forests at Merck Forest and Farmland Center. All sampling was done in May, before spring leaf out (canopy closure).
Sampling description: 14 sites were surveyed once in 2020 and once 2021. Surveys consisted of 15 bee bowls (5 yellow, 5 white, 5 blue) that were deployed for 24 hours on a warm and clear day.
Quality control description: All determinations were done by Spencer Hardy, Joan Milam, and Michael Veit

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Surveys of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) community in northern hardwood forest and wildlife clearings using pan traps
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=merck
Publication date of data: 2023-03-07
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