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Vermont Wild Bee Survey (2019-2021)

Dataset homepage

Citation

Hardy S, McFarland K, Sharp N, Milam J, Veit M, Richardson L, Droege S (2025). Vermont Wild Bee Survey (2019-2021). Version 1.19. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/yjw5fk accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-17.

Description

The Vermont Wild Bee Survey was the first comprehensive effort to understand the bee fauna for the state of Vermont. Specimens were collected from 2019 through 2021 by a variety of project staff and community naturalists. This dataset includes all records that were not part of a specific study during the survey period.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

In 2019, sampling effort was focused on 12 "priority blocks" that fell at least partially within Chittenden County. These 5 km X 5 km blocks were designated during the Vermont Breeding Bird Survey and since used for several wildlife atlases in Vermont. Repeated sampling was done by volunteers at three stratified sites within each block from May through August of 2019. From 2019 through 2021, additional sampling was done throughout the state, with a focus on locations that may harbor unique bee species.

Sampling

This dataset includes both "bee bowl" and active netting surveys. Surveys in 2019 followed protocols from The Very Handy Bee Manual (Droege, 2015). Subsequent bee bowl efforts used the same bowls, but varied the number and duration (recorded in the sampling events).

Quality Control

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

Method steps

  1. Additional descriptions of methods to be published shortly with an annotated state checklist. https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vtbees/

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Anthophila
    common name: Bees

Geographic Coverages

State of Vermont, USA

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Spencer Hardy
originator
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271
Kent McFarland
originator
position: Conservation Biologist
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
PO Box 420
Norwich
05055
VT
US
email: kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503
Nathaniel Sharp
originator
position: Data and Field Technician
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5395-5941
Joan Milam
originator
position: Adjunct Research Fellow
University of Massachusetts,
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8056-1304
Michael Veit
originator
position: Biologist
Independent
Leif Richardson
originator
position: Conservation Biologist
Xerces Society
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4855-5737
Sam Droege
originator
position: Wildlife 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
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271
Kent McFarland
principal investigator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
PO Box 420
Norwich
05055
VT
US
email: kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-5503
Spencer Hardy
administrative point of contact
position: Project Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
email: shardy@vtecostudies.org
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271
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