Report Number: 12844
Permit Number: CRLA199902-002
Current Status: Checked in
Date Received: Jan 01, 2000
Reporting Year:
1999
Principal Investigator:
Carol Ferguson, Biology Department, Southern
Oregon University, Ashland, OR
Additional investigator(s):
Peter Schroeder
Park-assigned Study Id. #:
CRLA199902-002
Permit Expiration
Date:
Jan 01, 2000
Permit Start Date:
Jan 01, 2000
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 document the
diversity of native Bombus species within
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: A
total of five different Bombus species and
24 specimens were sited and/or collected in
Crater Lake National Park during 1999 field
season. The park was visited on July 15 (no
Bombus were sited or collected), July 30th
(two Bombus bifarius queens were sited but
not collected) and September 8th (total of
24 Bombus specimens were collected
representing five different species,
flavifrons, bifarius, mixtus, occidentalis
and vosnesenskii). On September 8th, three
sites ;within the park were visited; Steel
Visitor Center, Wildflower Trail and Dutton
Trail and thirteen Bombus, three Bombus and
eight Bombus were collected respectively. At
the Steel Visitor Center 7 B. flavifrons (6
workers, 1 drone), ;5 B. bifarius workers
and 1 B. vosnesenskii worker; at wildflower
trail 1 B. mixtus worker, 1 B. bifarius
queen and 1 B. flavifrons worker; at Dutton
trail 3 B. occidentalis workers, 4 B.
bifarius workers and 1 B. mixtus worker were
;netted, pinned and labeled. All specimens
are currently housed in Southern Oregon
University Insect Museum but will eventually
be transferred to Crater Lake National Park.
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:
0
Full name of
college or university: n/a
Annual funding
provided by NPS to university or college this
reporting year:
0
