Open AccessOregon Bee Atlas: native bee findings from 2018
Author(s) -
Lincoln R. Best,
Christopher J. Marshall,
Cody Feuerborn,
Sarah Kincaid,
Andony Melathopoulos,
Samuel V.J. Robinson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
catalog: oregon state arthropod collection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2576-1943
DOI - 10.5399/osu/cat_osac.5.1.4647
Subject(s) - fauna , biology , ecology
The Oregon Bee Atlas is a new volunteer-led effort to characterize thebee fauna of Oregon State by collecting, preparing, and databasing nativebee species and capturing plant host records. In 2018, volunteers collected11,044 bee specimens across 33 Oregon counties, representing 179 unique beespecies, and 32 unique bee genera. Specimens were collected from a total of310 unique flowering plant genera, resulting in one of the largeststate-level databases of bee-host plant interactions. Volunteers producedvaluable occurrence records for species poorly known for the State, andspecies of conservation concern. The 2018 efforts constitute aproof-of-concept of a specimen-focused volunteer native bee survey.