Dataset Card – Bee Dataset

Dataset Overview

The United States National Museum of Natural History (USNM) bumblebee dataset is a natural‑history collection comprising single‑side or dorsal images of 73,497 bumblebee specimens belonging to the Apidae family, along with a tab‑separated values file containing occurrence data. Occurrence data include taxonomic classification, collection date, location information, and other metadata compliant with the Darwin Core standard (https://dwc.tdwg.org). 11,421 specimens are not identified to species and are listed as Bombus sp. or Xylocopa sp. Most specimens (55,301) have georeferenced locations. The dataset is global but limited to specimens housed in the Smithsonian USNM collection.

Language

English

Data Example

A typical data point includes specimen metadata and image information.

An example from the dataset:

{
  "occurrenceID": "http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/30042e2d8-669d-4520-b456-e3c64203eff8",
  "catalogNumber": "USNMENT01732649",
  "recordedBy": "R. Craig",
  "year": "1949",
  "month": "4",
  "day": "13",
  "country": "United States",
  "stateProvince": "California",
  "county": "Fresno",
  "locality": "Auberry",
  "decimalLatitude": "37.0808",
  "decimalLongitude": "-119.485",
  "identifiedBy": "OBrien, L. R.",
  "scientificName": "Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex",
  "genus": "Xylocopa",
  "subgenus": "Notoxylocopa",
  "specificEpithet": "tabaniformis",
  "infraspecificEpithet": "orpifex",
  "scientificNameAuthorship": "Smith",
  "accessURI": "https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMNH-USNMENT01732649",
  "PixelXDimension": 2000,
  "PixelYDimension": 1212
}

Data Fields

Specimen metadata fields follow the Darwin Core standard; see https://dwc.tdwg.org for details. Image metadata fields follow the Audiovisual Core standard; see https://ac.tdwg.org/.

Dataset Size

• Training set: 73,387 samples, 3,672,202,733.82 bytes
• Download size: 3,659,907,058 bytes
• Total dataset size: 3,672,202,733.82 bytes

Configuration

• Configuration name: default
• Data files:
  • Split: training
  • Path: data/train-*

Dataset Curators

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology. Jessica Bird (Entomology Data Manager) is the primary contact.

License

Public domain, Creative Commons CC0.

Citation

Orrell T, Informatics Office (2023). NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US). Version 1.72. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Occurrence dataset. https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=nmnh_extant_dwc-a&v=1.72