Pilot Study of Wild Bees in Working Sugar Maple Stands

Spencer Hardy; Nathaniel Sharp; Michael Veit; Steve Faccio

doi:10.15468/6xcj6z

Pilot Study of Wild Bees in Working Sugar Maple Stands

Citation

Hardy S, Sharp N, Veit M, Faccio S (2022). Pilot Study of Wild Bees in Working Sugar Maple Stands. Version 1.4. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6xcj6z accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-01-31.

Description

This was a pilot study of native bee communities in sugar maple stands that are used to harvest sap for syrup production in northern Vermont, USA. Sampling was part of a larger project: Evaluating the Efficacy of Audubon Vermont’s Bird-Friendly Maple: Can Managing Sugarbushes for Birds Provide Additional Benefits to Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Forest Resilience? Work for this data set was partially funded by the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC). More information can be found at https://nsrcforest.org/project/evaluating-efficacy-audubon-vermont’s-bird-friendly-maple-project-sugarbushes.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Seven working sugar maple stands in northern Vermont. Six sites were surveyed once, one site was surveyed twice.

Sampling

Three locations at each sugar maple stand were surveyed using 15 bee bowls each (5 white, 5 blue, 5 yellow). Bee bowls were set on the forest floor 3-5 meters apart along a transect through mixed hardwood forest. Bowls were left for the equivalent of a full day, either from early morning to early evening, or for 24 hours. All bees caught were pinned, labeled, and identified as part of the Vermont Wild Bee Survey at the Vermont Atlas of Life.

Quality Control

Identifications were completed by Spencer Hardy and Michael Veit.

Method steps

NA

Taxonomic Coverages

Bees

Anthophila
common name: Bees rank: infraorder

Geographic Coverages

Northern Vermont, USA

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Spencer Hardy
originator
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Vermont
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Nathaniel Sharp
originator
position: Field and Data Technician
Vermont Center of Ecostudies

Michael Veit
originator
position: Biologist
Independent
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5395-5941

Steve Faccio
originator
position: Biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0000-0001-5098-9265

Spencer Hardy
metadata author
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Vermont
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Spencer Hardy
user
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Vermont
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Steve Faccio
principal investigator
position: Biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5098-9265

Nathaniel Sharp
content provider
position: Data Technician
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5395-5941

Steve Hagenbuch
principal investigator
position: Biologist
Audubon

Brendan Fisher
principal investigator
position: Professor
University of Vermont

Liza Morse
user
position: PhD Graduate Student
University of Vermont

Anthony D'Amato
principal investigator
position: Professor
University of Vermont

Spencer Hardy
administrative point of contact
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Vermont
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271