Jane Colden
Colden; Jane Farquhar; Jane Colden Farquhar; Jane “Jenny” Colden
March 27, 1724 – March 10, 1766
botanist
American botanist (1724-1766)
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Science Enabled by Specimen Data
Sheffield, C., and J. Heron. 2018. A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson), with discussion of ecological associations, distribution and conservation status in Canada. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22837. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.6.e22837
Background: Epeoloides pilosulus, one of the rarest bees in North America, is a cleptoparasite of Macropis bees which themselves are uncommon oligoleges of oil-producing Lysimachia flowers. Only two specimens of the cleptoparasite have been reported from Canada since the 1960s, both from Nova Scotia…