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Georeferenced UK social wasps

This dataset is a subset of DOI: 10.5519/qd.tdi9zagc. This dataset contains all UK common wasp (Vespula vulgaris, Linnaeus 1758), German wasp (Vespula germanica, Fabricius, 1793) and European hornet (Vespa crabro, Linnaeus 1758) specimens held by the NHM (as of July 2018) and all specimens have been georeferenced (for protocol, see Blagoderov et al., 2017; DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e19893).

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Galina Mikaella Jönsson (2020). Georeferenced UK social wasps [Data set]. Natural History Museum. https://doi.org/10.5519/0082541
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Additional Info

Field Value
Maintainer Gavin Broad
Primary contributors
Jönsson, Galina Mikaella ( 0000-0001-8372-8547)
Other contributors
Temporal extent 1900-2016
Last updated 24 January 2020
Last resource update 24 January 2020 (GeorefUKwasps.csv)
Created 24 January 2020
License Creative Commons Attribution