USGS personnel surveyed bumble bees and flowering plants on private and public lands in Central Montana during the spring and summer of 2023 and 2024. These data provide a summary of what was found, including the number of bumble bees caught during standardized netting surveys and a comprehensive list of all plants in flower within survey plots during each site visit.

These raw survey data and associated explanatory covariates were used to model western bumble bee occupancy across the western conterminous United States from 1998 to 2020. These data underlie the analyses found in the publication of “Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides” by Janousek et al. 2023 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 120, issue 5. The covariate data are provided in a scaled format for use in the occupancy model, and the scaling parameters used to transform the data to the original (real) scale are provided in the scaling information file.

USGS personnel surveyed bumble bees and flowering plants in and around Glacier National Park during the summer of 2023. These data include 1) a .csv file of all bumble bee - plant interactions observed across surveys and 2) all flowering plants observed in bloom across all surveys

These data represent occupancy estimates for western bumble bee across the western continental United States and the spatial variation in detection probabilities that occur during bumble bee surveys. This product contains five raster layers (appearing as separate bands in a multi-band raster). The first two bands represent the predicted occupancy of western bumble bee in 1998 and 2018. We modeled western bumble bee occupancy as a function of: latitude, longitude, elevation, year, and land cover. The last three bands represent the spatial variation in detection probabilities predicted to occur for surveys conducted across the western United States on three dates (May 15, July 15, and September 15). We modeled detection probabilities as a function of: land cover, bloom date (the date at which floral resources become available), days since bloom initiation, and the interaction between bloom date and days since bloom. Further details on the creation of this product are described in: Graves, T.A., Janousek, W.M., Gaulke, S.M., Nicholas, A.C., Keinath, D.A., Bell, C.M., Cannings, S., Hatfield, R.G., Heron, J.M., Koch, J.B., Loffland, H.L., Richardson, L.L., Rohde, A.T., Rykken, J., Strange, J.P., Tronstad, L.M., and C.S. Sheffield. 2020. Western bumble bee: declines in the continental United States and range‐wide information gaps. Ecosphere, 11(6), p.e03141. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3141 This supports pre-listing science for species under consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

These data represent occupancy estimates for western bumble bee across the western continental United States and the spatial variation in detection probabilities that occur during bumble bee surveys. This product contains five raster layers (appearing as separate bands in a multi-band raster). The first two bands represent the predicted occupancy of western bumble bee in 1998 and 2018. We modeled western bumble bee occupancy as a function of: latitude, longitude, elevation, year, and land cover. The last three bands represent the spatial variation in detection probabilities predicted to occur for surveys conducted across the western United States on three dates (May 15, July 15, and September 15). We modeled detection probabilities as a function of: land cover, bloom date (the date at which floral resources become available), days since bloom initiation, and the interaction between bloom date and days since bloom. Further details on the creation of this product are described in: Graves, T.A., Janousek, W.M., Gaulke, S.M., Nicholas, A.C., Keinath, D.A., Bell, C.M., Cannings, S., Hatfield, R.G., Heron, J.M., Koch, J.B., Loffland, H.L., Richardson, L.L., Rohde, A.T., Rykken, J., Strange, J.P., Tronstad, L.M., and C.S. Sheffield. 2020. Western bumble bee: declines in the continental United States and range‐wide information gaps. Ecosphere, 11(6), p.e03141. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3141 This supports pre-listing science for species under consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks started a project to characterize the number of species of bumble bees and the relative abundances of these species in southwestern Ontario in support of the Pollinator Health Action Plan. Bumble bees were collected from 46 locations to compare the diversity of bees occurring in agricultural and more natural areas. The data includes: * sampling locations, including GPS coordinates and the county name * the number of bumble bee individuals sampled at each site, listed for each species and for each caste of a species (queen, worker, male) * other site details, such as the date of the site visit [View this data on an interactive map](https://portal.geomatics.gov.on.ca/agol/AccessibleViewer/index.html?appid=e38703b018ff4e3ca09f2878879a4e34) This dataset is related to the following: 1. [Stream Neonicotinoid Monitoring Study](/dataset/stream-neonicotinoid-monitoring-study) 2. [Soil Neonicotinoid Monitoring Study](/dataset/soil-neonicotinoid-monitoring-study) 3. [Pollen Monitoring Network Study](/dataset/pollen-monitoring-network-study) 4. [Benthic Invertebrate Neonicotinoid Monitoring Study](/dataset/benthic-invertebrate-neonicotinoid-monitoring-study) 5. [Drinking Water Neonicotinoid Monitoring Study](/dataset/drinking-water-neonicotinoid-monitoring-study) *[GPS]: Global Positioning System

These data represent occupancy estimates for western bumble bee across the western conterminous United States. This product contains five raster layers (appearing as separate bands in a multi-band raster). The first two bands represent the predicted occupancy of western bumble bee in 1998 and 2020. We modeled western bumble bee occupancy as a function of climate and land cover. The last three bands represent future occupancy projections of western bumble bee into the mid-century (2050s). The future projections cover a range of expected changes in climate and land cover and are ranked as best-case (band 3), middle-case (band 4), and worst-case (band 5).

These data represent occupancy estimates for western bumble bee across the western conterminous United States. This product contains five raster layers (appearing as separate bands in a multi-band raster). The first two bands represent the predicted occupancy of western bumble bee in 1998 and 2020. We modeled western bumble bee occupancy as a function of climate and land cover. The last three bands represent future occupancy projections of western bumble bee into the mid-century (2050s). The future projections cover a range of expected changes in climate and land cover and are ranked as best-case (band 3), middle-case (band 4), and worst-case (band 5).

This data represents occupancy predictions for western bumble bee in 2020 across the western conterminous United States. This product is a 30-meter resolution downscaled version of previously published occupancy layers for the western bumble bee. For more information on original publications, see the publication listed in the Larger Works Cited Section.

This data record includes bee species captured by pan trap or hand net in 1-hectare, mixed-grass prairie plots at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in 2012.