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Bee Land-use Change Project

The Bee Land-use Change Project dataset comprises the records of all pinned Bombus hortorum, B.hypnorum, B.lapidarius, B.muscorum, B.pascuorum, B.ruderatus and B.sylvarum material collected in the UK and housed at the Natural History Museum, London. The dataset comprises 6753 specimens.

Specimen labels were removed from each specimen and imaged alongside the specimen. Dorsal images were taken of each specimen. Each specimen record has been published with a unique identifier (barcode), taxon information, label metadata transcription, locality georeferencing and an image capturing both the specimen and its associated labels.

This collection was digitised as part of the Museum's Digital Collections Programme and funded by NERC award NE/P012914/1 "Bee sensitivity to a century of agricultural land-use change".

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Cite this as

Natural History Museum (2021). Bee Land-use Change Project [Data set]. Natural History Museum. https://doi.org/10.5519/pi8f798a
Retrieved: 17:21 08 Jul 2025 (UTC) BibTeX

Additional Info

Field Value
Primary contributors
Other contributors
Barnes, Ian;
Arce, Andres;
Allan, Louise ( 0000-0002-5148-002X);
Barclay, Charlotte;
Notton, David G. ( 0000-0002-8933-7915);
Gill, Richard;
Kokkini, Phaedra ( 0000-0002-7652-0956);
Wing, Peter ( 0000-0002-8634-8790)
Temporal extent pre 1850 to present day
Update frequency Monthly
Last updated 22 November 2021
Last resource update 22 November 2021 (Bee Land-use Change Project Specimens)
Created 22 November 2021
License Creative Commons CCZero