Bee occurrence data collected in "Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census)" in Japan

Yukari Suzuki-Ohno1

1 Tohoku university, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, 980-8578, Sendai, Japan

Corresponding author(s): Yukari Suzuki-Ohno (yukari.tohoku.univ@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Suzuki-Ohno Y, Yokoyama J, Nakashizuka T, Kawata M (2021) Bee occurrence data collected in "Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census)" in Japan. Available from: http://www.gbif.jp/ipt/resource?r=hanamaru_bees. 10.1111/1440-1703.12261

Abstract

We collected bee photographs taken by citizens in citizen science program “Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census in English).”  Bee occurrence data includes 5,503 records of 16 bumble bee species and 380 records of three carpenter bee species.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Pollinators, Smartphone, Photograph, Crowd system, Citizen science

Project details

Project title: Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census in English)
Personnel: Yukari Suzuki-Ohno
Funding: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellow Grant Number JP16J40194, the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-15 Predicting and Assessing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H03835

Data published through GBIF: https://www.gbif.jp/ipt/resource?r=hanamaru_bees

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 16 bumble bee species and three carpenter species
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Bombus ardens, Bombus beaticola, Bombus cryptarum, Bombus diversus, Bombus honshuensis, Bombus hypocrita, Bombus ignitus, Bombus pseudobaicalensis, Bombus terrestris, Bombus ussurensis, Bombus yezoensis, Xylocopa flavifrons, Xylocopa tranquebarorum
Subspecies: Bombus consobrinus, Bombus deuteronymus, Bombus hypnorum, Bombus norvegicus, Bombus schrencki, Xylocopa appendiculata

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Japanese archipelago excluding the Kurile Islands
Coordinates: 26°26'60''N and 45°17'24''N Latitude; 127°47'60''E and 145°49'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 14, 2006 - October 27, 2018

Natural collections description

Collection name: Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census)

Methods

Method step description: We collected bee photographs taken by citizens in citizen science program “Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census in English)” in Japan.
Study extent description: We collected bee photographs taken by citizens in citizen science program “Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census in English)” in Japan.
Sampling description: Species were identified from photographic images, and latitude-longitude data was extracted from GPS data in Exif information of photographs or address in text of e-mail.
Quality control description: The consistency of bumble bee species identification by J. Yokoyama was 95% for 15 bumble bee species, and 97.7% for major six species (B. diversus, B. ardens, B. hypocrita, B. ignitus, B. honshuensis, and B. beaticola)

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bee occurrence data collected in "Hanamaru-Maruhana national census (Bumble bee national census)" in Japan
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www.gbif.jp/ipt/archive.do?r=hanamaru_bees
Publication date of data: 2021-08-24
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-08-24
Hierarchy level: Dataset