Investigator’s Annual Reports (IAR’s) for Crater Lake National Park

Inventory of Native Bumblebees of Crater Lake

 

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

 

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