Middlebury College Insect Collection: Bees (Anthophila)

Spencer Hardy1, Spencer Hardy2, Joanna Shipley3

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, 05055, Norwich, United States; 2 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, PO Box 420, 05055, Norwich, United States; 3 Middlebury College, 05753, Middlebury

Corresponding author(s): Spencer Hardy (shardy@vtecostudies.org)

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Resource Citation

Hardy S (2022): Middlebury College Insect Collection: Bees (Anthophila). v1.5. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=middnotbombus&v=1.5

Abstract

Bee specimens from the Middlebury College insect collection. Currently only specimens collected in Vermont are included.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Vermont

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Bees
Taxonomic ranks
Superfamily: Apoidea
Common names: bees

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Primarily Addison County, VT, USA
Coordinates: 43°24'10.8''N and 44°35'24''N Latitude; 73°33'50.4''W and 72°6'50.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1960 - 2019

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Middlebury College Insect Collection
Collection name: Duncan J. McDonald
Collection identifier: DJM
Specimen preservation method: Pinned

Methods

Method step description: Unknown
Study extent description: Primarily in Middlebury, VT and surrounding towns
Sampling description: Collections from a variety of projects, including undergraduate classes
Quality control description: Determinations by Sam Droege and Spencer Hardy

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Middlebury College Insect Collection: Bees (Anthophila)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=middnotbombus
Publication date of data: 2022-03-03
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-02-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset