Bee Library
An online resource connecting images, specimen records, and natural history information about bees.
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ-ENT)
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
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Collection Statistics
- 22,020 specimen records
- 21,099 (96%) georeferenced
- 11,595 (53%) with images (18,394 total images)
- 16,133 (73%) identified to species
- 7 families
- 130 genera
- 1,029 species
- 1,084 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
