Bee Library
An online resource connecting images, specimen records, and natural history information about bees.
Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California Berkeley (UCB-EMEC)
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: 24 April 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 58,576 specimen records
- 55,289 (94%) georeferenced
- 48,784 (83%) identified to species
- 5 families
- 70 genera
- 507 species
- 540 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
