Bee Library
An online resource connecting images, specimen records, and natural history information about bees.
San Diego Natural History Museum Entomology Department (SDNHM-SDMC)
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: 24 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 4,616 specimen records
- 1,726 (37%) georeferenced
- 2,798 (61%) with images (7,565 total images)
- 3,493 (76%) identified to species
- 6 families
- 48 genera
- 320 species
- 336 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
