Historic Butterfly Records Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas 1.0

Kent McFarland

doi:10.15468/6z99f3

Historic Butterfly Records Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas 1.0

Citation

McFarland K (2022). Historic Butterfly Records Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas 1.0. Version 1.3. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6z99f3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-18.

Description

From 2002 to 2007 volunteer butterfly enthusiasts spent thousands of hours in the field in an effort to record the status and distribution of Vermont butterflies, the first systematic statewide butterfly atlas to be undertaken. As part of this atlas, historic records were digitized from regional collections. This dataset contains records from several small personal and private collections.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Vermont, USA

Sampling

unknown

Quality Control

unknown

Method steps

unknown

Taxonomic Coverages

butterflies and giant silkmoths from Vermont

Papilionoidea
common name: butterflies rank: superfamily
Saturniidae
common name: giant silk moths rank: family

Geographic Coverages

State of Vermont, USA

Bibliographic Citations

McFarland, K.P. and S. Zahendra. 2010. The Vermont Butterfly Survey, 2002 – 2007: A Final Report to the Natural Heritage Information Project of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. 298 pp. - dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.827269.v1

Contacts

Kent McFarland
originator
position: conservation biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Norwich
05055
US
email: kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503

Kent McFarland
metadata author
position: conservation biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Norwich
05055
US
email: kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503

Kent McFarland
principal investigator
position: conservation biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Norwich
05055
US
email: kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503

Kent McFarland
administrative point of contact
position: conservation biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Norwich
05055
US
email: kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503