Bee Library Natural History Collections and Observation Projects


ASU-ASUHIC

ASU Hasbrouck Insect Collection - Bee Records

This is a snapshot of all bee (Apoidea: Anthophila) records from the ASUHIC collection available from the ecdysis portal.

Collection Manager: Sangmi Lee, SLEE281@ASU.EDU (ORCID #: 0000-0002-9636-8242)
Curator: Nico Franz, nico.franz@asu.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-7089-7018)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 May 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


USDA-ARS-BBSL

Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research

This is a one-time snapshot collection of data originally hosted by GBIF: http://www.gbif.org/publisher/1e26a630-7203-11dc-a0d8-b8a03c50a862

Temporal range: August 7, 1819 - August 25, 2012

Publication date November 26, 2019

The Pollinating Insects -- Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit (PIRU) was founded in the late 1940s as part of the alfalfa seed production unit. We focus primarily on pollination research with bees.The mission of the Pollinating Insect - Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit is the development of non-Apis bees, for example the alfalfa leafcutting bee and blue orchard bee, as crop pollinators. Research emphasis areas include the development and improvement of management systems for bee populations, biological studies of bees, plant-pollination systems, and bee biosystematics. Cross-pollinated crops not effectively pollinated by honey bees have been targeted for improved pollination management, and the candidacy of selected pollinator species continues to be evaluated. Current research on established species, like the alfalfa leafcutting bee and blue orchard bee, is directed toward developing control programs for pests and diseases, improving management that will result in better bee health and demonstrating pollination efficacy and increased producer profitability on "new" crops.

Contacts: Terry Griswold, Terry.Griswold@ars.usda.gov (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3952-9393)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 November 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


CAS-ENT

California Academy of Sciences

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Collection Manager: Christopher Grinter, cgrinter@calacademy.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3769-1664)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


CAS-CASTYPE

California Academy of Sciences - Type Collection

This collection contains the bee type specimens housed at the California Academy of Sciences.

Collection Manager: Chris Grinter, cgrinter@calacademy.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3769-1664)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


AMNH-BEE

Collaborative databasing of North American bee collections within a global informatics network project

Data in this collection are from the Collaborative databasing of North American bee collections within a global informatics network project. Data was originally captured using Arthropod Easy Capture software developed at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York. Project lead investigators are John Ascher (Principal Investigator) and Jerome Rozen (Co-Principal Investigator) at the AMNH, and Douglas Yanega (Principal Investigator), University of California Riverside. 

Please use this citation for this archive: John Ascher, Digital Bee Collections Network data archive from the Collaborative databasing of North American bee collections within a global informatics network project. Version: 08 Mar 2016. National Science Foundation grants DBI 0956388 and DBI 0956340

 

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data harvested from a data aggregator
Last Update: 6 September 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCB-EMEC

Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California Berkeley

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Collection Manager: Peter Oboyski, essig.museum@gmail.com (ORCID #: 0000-0001-8240-9106)
Contacts: Neil Tsutsui, ntsutsui@berkeley.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-1868-3941)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data harvested from a data aggregator
Last Update: 25 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File

Florida State Collection of Arthropods

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Collection manager: Elijah Talamas, Elijah.Talamas@fdacs.gov (ORCID #: 0000-0002-1048-6345)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


iNat

iNaturalist Research-Grade Observations

This is a snapshot collection of Research-Grade observations from the iNaturalist.org platform as published through GBIF.

 

The dataset was searched for the seven families within Anthophila and is available here:

GBIF.org (03 November 2021) GBIF Occurrence Download  https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.aw9qu4

Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 November 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File

Material examined collection

This is a collection of specimens and images from many institutions.

Contacts: Katja Seltmann
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


MCZ-ENT

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: Naomi Pierce, npierce@oeb.harvard.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3366-1625)
Collection Manager: Crystal Maier, cmaier@fas.harvard.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6435-2775)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College


LACM-ENT

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Curator: Brian Brown, bbrown@nhm.org (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6367-6057)
Collection Manager: Giar-Ann Kung, gkung@nhm.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-8099-6949)
Collection Manager: Weiping Xie, wxie@nhm.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 November 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County


NBM-ENT

New Brunswick Museum

Assistant Curator, Zoology: Gregory Jongsma, greg.jongsma@nbm-mbn.ca
Technician, Zoology: Gayathri Sreedharan, Gayathri.Sreedharan@nbm-mnb.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 May 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


SDNHM-SDMC

San Diego Natural History Museum Entomology Department

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Collection Manager: Pamela Horsley, phorsley@sdnhm.org (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3362-2255)
Curator: Michael Wall, mwall@sdnhm.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3796-0895)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


NMNH-ENT

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collection

This collection contains the Anthophila records published by the NMNH Entomology Collection.

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 31 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File

The Bees they are a Changin project

This collection is an aggregate research collection for examining how bee body size is responding to climate change. There will be duplicate records with other portals: UCSB's collection, the AMNH collection and the LACM collection.

Contacts: Colleen Smith
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 46da7109-a045-450b-ad55-f7ba692014fa
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCSB-IZC

University of California Santa Barbara Invertebrate Zoology Collection

The UC Santa Barbara Invertebrate Zoology collection began in 2016 when Cheadle Center Director, Katja Seltmann started at UCSB. The majority of the specimens are recent (since 2016) but many from the 1950s are included in an entomology teaching collection that was at UCSB during this time. In 1960, Dr. Adrian Wenner arrived at UCSB and added a small personal collection of families not represented in the collection. The collection continues to grow through voluntary donations of arthropods collected by students for class projects, accessions from the UCSB Natural Reserve System, and research projects at UCSB and the Cheadle Center Ecological Restoration. The majority of the specimens are insects from UC Santa Barbara and the surrounding area and the collection strength is in Hymenoptera. This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included. All data and images in this collection are under CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) license.

Director: Katja Seltmann, seltmann@ucsb.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-5354-6048)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCM-UCMC

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collection

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: Adrian Carper, adrian.l.carper@colorado.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-8657-3613)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


KU-SEMC

University of Kansas Natural History Museum Entomology Division

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: Michael Engel, msengel@ku.edu
Contacts: Victor Gonzalez-Betancourt, vhgonza@ku.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4146-1634)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


UMMZ-UMMZI

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Division of Insects

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: L. Lacey Knowles, knowlesl@umich.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-6567-4853)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


UNH-UNHC

University of New Hampshire, Donald S. Chandler Entomological Collection

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: Istvan Miko, istvan.miko@gmail.com (ORCID #: 0000-0003-2938-9075)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 31 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


USGS PWRC-BIML

USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: Sam Droege, sdroege@usgs.gov (ORCID #: 0000-0003-4393-0403)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 31 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File