Sample name: Tower Clearing (dry season, weeks 2-14)

Sample aka: Barro Colorado Island

Reference: J. D. Ackerman. 1983. Diversity and seasonality of male euglossine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in central Panamâ. Ecology 64(2):274-283 [ER 2447]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: " semievergreen tropical forest... or tropical moist forest... a tropical monsoon climate... annual rainfall ranges from 190 to 360 cm... The climate is distinctly seasonal with a dry period of 3-4 mo beginning near mid-December"

Life forms: orchid bees

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: no design,baited,hand capture,visual

Sample size: 6887 individuals

Years: 1979

Days: 13

Seasons: dry

Sampling comments: "16 chemical baits" were used, and "most are known constituents of floral fragrance... Each chemical was applied to separate 7 x 7 cm pads of clean herbarium blotter paper... From 0830 to 1230 I presented the chemical baits... At 15-min intervals I recorded all visitors to each of the compounds... Only vouchers and taxonomically difficult species were captured... Every week from mid-February 1979 to mid-March 1980, I baited for bees at the Tower Clearing. Thereafter, I baited once every 4 wk through June 1980" but these data are for weeks 2 through 14 only

Sample number: 2706

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-04-16 18:00:11

Modified: 2017-04-16 08:00:11