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

Spencer Hardy; Deborah Laramie; Michael Veit; Joan Milam; Sam Droege

doi:10.15468/u9vsv4

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

Citation

Hardy S, Laramie D, Veit M, Milam J, Droege S (2024). Bee Specimens from a Malaise-Type Trap in Addison County, Vermont, USA. Version 1.13. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/u9vsv4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

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.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

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

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

Identifications done by Spencer Hardy, Michael Veit, Joan Milam, and Sam Droege

Method steps

Bees were frozen and later pinned and identified following procedures from the Vermont Wild Bee Survey.

Taxonomic Coverages

wild bees

Anthophila
common name: Bees

Geographic Coverages

Near Snake Mountain, Addison County, Vermont, USA

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Spencer Hardy
originator
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Deborah Laramie
originator
position: Volunteer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Michael Veit
originator
position: Biologist
Unaffiliated
Massachusetts
US

Joan Milam
originator
position: Adjunct Research Fellow
University of Massachusetts,
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8056-1304

Sam Droege
originator
position: Biologist
US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4393-0403

Spencer Hardy
metadata author
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Spencer Hardy
content provider
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

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