Phenology Data for Specialist Bee and Host Plants from 1901 to 2024

North American occurrence and climate data for the bee Macropis nuda and its host plants in the genus Lysimachia. The dataset contains 124 years of records from 1901 to 2024, sourced from GBIF and ClimateNA, and was created by William Liu. It is 908.7 MB in size and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling phenological sensitivity to temperature based on mean summer temperature data.
• Assessing spatiotemporal variation in bee and plant emergence based on latitude and year.
• Investigating the risk of phenological mismatch in specialist pollinator-plant systems.
• Supporting conservation planning for specialist bees using long-term climate and occurrence trends.

Strengths

• Long temporal coverage spanning 124 years from 1901 to 2024.
• Data sourced from authoritative repositories GBIF and ClimateNA.
• Analysis includes spatial (latitudinal) and interannual temperature variation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

GBIF and ClimateNA

Collection Method

Mixed effect models applied to occurrence and climate data.

Time Range

1901 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-03 03:04:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North America (inferred from ClimateNA data source)