Bee Library
An online resource connecting images, specimen records, and natural history information about bees.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM-ENT)
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: 24 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Collection Statistics
- 34,299 specimen records
- 7,422 (22%) georeferenced
- 27,263 (79%) with images (33,752 total images)
- 25,293 (74%) identified to species
- 7 families
- 73 genera
- 1,135 species
- 1,147 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
