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FWS and USGS Joint Native Bee Laboratory (BIML)

Specimen Records: 419,063
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2020-07-24

Species occurrence records for native and non-native bees, wasps and other insects collected using mainly pan, malaise, and vane trapping; and insect netting methods in Canada, Mexico, the non-contiguous United States, U.S. Territories (specifically U.S. Virgin Islands), U.S. Minor Outlying Islands and other global locations with the bulk of the specimens coming from the Eastern United States often from Federal lands such as USFWS, NPS, DOD, USFS. Some records also contain notes regarding plants or substrates from which insects were collected or that were present and/or in flower at the time the insects were collected. Unless otherwise noted, taxonomic determinations (identifications) were completed by Sam Droege (USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center- EESC, Native Bee Laboratory) and Clare Maffei (USFWS, Inventory and Monitoring Branch). The EESC Native Bee Lab currently keeps only a small synoptic collection, rare and voucher specimens are deposited in the Smithsonian National Collection (NMNH) and widely distributed to other institutions for DNA, revisions, and augmentation of existing collections. Surplus specimens are also made available to students to learn their identifications. Corrections to any of our determinations are always welcomed. Common species that are not in demand for surplus are usually destroyed and the pins recycled. Recent revisions to Lasioglossum, Ceratina, and to a much lesser extent Triepeolus and Epeolus and other small groups have rendered determinations prior to those revisions out of date for species involved in name changes and users should account for that during analyses. Current data (included information on specimen codes without identifications) are always available without charge directly from Sam Droege.

Contacts

Name Sam Droege
RoleWildlife Biologist
Emailsdroege@usgs.gov
Name Clare Maffei
RoleBiologist
Emailclare_maffei@fws.gov
Name Sam Droege
RoleWildlife Biologist
Emailsdroege@usgs.gov
Name Clare Maffei
RoleBiologist
Emailclare_maffei@fws.gov
Name Elizabeth Sellers
Rolenone
Emailesellers@usgs.gov
Name Sam Droege
RoleWildlife Biologist
Emailsdroege@usgs.gov
Name Clare Maffei
RoleBiologist
Emailclare_maffei@fws.gov
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i419063
100
dwc_continent_added  i419033
99.993
geopoint_datum_missing  i417495
99.626
dwc_country_replaced  i411579
98.214
dwc_class_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_datasetid_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_order_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_phylum_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_taxonid_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i58834
14.039
dwc_taxonrank_added  i58834
14.039
gbif_canonicalname_added  i58834
14.039
gbif_genericname_added  i58834
14.039
gbif_taxon_corrected  i58834
14.039
dwc_genus_added  i58709
14.01
dwc_family_added  i58672
14.001
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i58489
13.957
rev_geocode_eez  i49655
11.849
gbif_reference_added  i49211
11.743
gbif_vernacularname_added  i47409
11.313
dwc_multimedia_added  i38286
9.136
dwc_specificepithet_added  i19370
4.622
taxon_match_failed  i11337
2.705
geopoint_low_precision  i10988
2.622
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i9581
2.286
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i4393
1.048
rev_geocode_mismatch  i4067
0.97
rev_geocode_both_sign  i10
0.002
rev_geocode_corrected  i10
0.002
rev_geocode_failure  i10
0.002
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i8
0.002
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