Bee Library
An online resource connecting images, specimen records, and natural history information about bees.
University of Kansas Natural History Museum Entomology Division (KU-SEMC)
This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.
Contacts: Michael Engel, msengel@ku.edu
Contacts: Victor Gonzalez-Betancourt, vhgonza@ku.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4146-1634)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 465,556 specimen records
- 275,811 (59%) georeferenced
- 304,526 (65%) with images (321,368 total images)
- 314,778 (68%) identified to species
- 6 families
- 453 genera
- 8,434 species
- 9,077 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
