Bee Library
An online resource connecting images, specimen records, and natural history information about bees.
Wild Bees of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (USDA-ARS-BBSL-4)
We conducted a large-scale, multi-year inventory of the bee fauna of one such area, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), which is a large area of protected land that, until recently, incorporated nearly 1.9 million acres of the Colorado Plateau in south-central Utah.
Refer to original data source for most updated description and contacts.
Original Data Source: https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=usda-gsenm-inventory
Associated Publication: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5867
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 September 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Rights Holder: USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research
Collection Statistics
- 97,870 specimen records
- 97,870 (100%) georeferenced
- 83,239 (85%) identified to species
- 6 families
- 55 genera
- 490 species
- 532 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
