Bee Library Update

The Big-Bee TCN (NSF 2102006)—which has catalyzed and supported the Bee Library since 2021—wrapped up its final digitization activities in August 2025. At the conclusion of the project, the portal contained over 4.1 million bee occurrence records of which 531k…

Bee Library Campaign In Review

In 2021, the University of California-Santa Barbara and collaborating institutions received NSF funding to capture and aggregate bee image, trait, and specimen data as part of a three-year “Big-Bee” Thematic Collections Network (Seltmann et al., 2021). Central to this project is The Bee…