Report Number: 12841
Reporting
Year: 1998
Permit Number: CRLA1998FERG
Current Status: Checked in
Date Received: Jan 01, 1999
Principal Investigator:
Carol Ferguson, Biology Department, Southern
Oregon University, Ashland, OR
Additional investigator(s):
Peter Schroeder
Park-assigned Study Id. #:
CRLA1998FERG
Permit Expiration
Date:
Jan 01, 2000
Permit Start Date:
Jan 01, 1998
Study Starting
Date:
Jan 01, 1998
Study Ending Date:
Jan 01, 1998
Study
Status:
Completed
Activity Type:
Monitoring
Subject/Discipline:
Invertebrates (Insects, Other)
Objectives:
This research sought to provide an initial
inventory of bumblebees (Bombus) within
selected sites of Crater Lake National Park
(CLNP). Plants species visited by Bombus
were also observed and recorded. This
research in intended as groundowrk for
developing future studies investigating
relationships between native pollinator and
native plants at CLNP as well as other areas
in Southern Oregon.
Findings and Status:
Fifteen specimens of Bombus and two
specimens of Psithyrus (cuckoo bumblebees)
were collected and/or sighted from three
survey sites. Collections were comprised of
5 species of Bombus (B. bifarius, B.
flavifrons, B. mixtus, B. occidentalis, and
B. vosensenskii) and one species of
Psithyris (P. insularis). Bumblebees were
first sighted on 14 July on the Annie Creek
Trail. No drones or workers were ever
observed at any of the surveyed sites during
the entire sampling period, although Bombus
workers were observed at nearby areas (Steel
Information and Visitor's Center and Dutton
Trail) late in the sampling period (24
August and 3 September). A total of 10
specimens were catalogued with the catalog
numbers CRLA 9207-9216. Currently, the
specimens reside in the SOU Insect Museum
(Biology Department, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520) but will be deposited in
the Crater Lake National Park collection
(Crater Lake, OR 97604) by the summer of
1999.
For
this study, were one or more specimens collected and
removed from the park but not destroyed during
analyses?
Yes
Funding provided
this reporting year by NPS:
0
Funding provided
this reporting year by other sources:
1453
Full name of
college or university:
Southern Oregon University
Annual funding
provided by NPS to university or college this
reporting year:
0
