Xerces Society - Bumble Bee Watch (Xerces-BOMB)

This dataset is provided by USGS, please go here https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=xerces-bumblebeewatch to obtain raw data. IP Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. While we provide these data to USGS BISON under the above license, we respectfully ask that data users consider the Bumble Bee Watch Privacy and Data Use Policy https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/privacy-policy Bumble Bee Watch is a collaborative effort to track and conserve North America’s bumble bees. Bumble Bee Watch is a citizen science project through the partnership of The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the University of Ottawa, Wildlife Preservation Canada, BeeSpotter, The Natural History Museum, London, and the Montreal Insectarium. Bumble bee species occurrence data included in this dataset is derived from photo-based observations of bumble bees collected and submitted by citizen scientists in the United States and Canada. These data will help researchers determine the status and conservation needs of bumble bees; Help locate rare or endangered populations of bumble bees; and Learn about bumble bees, their ecology, and ongoing conservation efforts.

Contact: Richard Hatfield (rich@xerces.org)

Home Page: https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=xerces-bumblebeewatch

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Xerces

• 16,311 occurrence
• 16,309 (100%) georeferenced
• 14,463 (89%) identified to species
• 1 families
• 1 genera
• 37 species
• 37 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)