Morphometric photographs of queen honey bees originating from Canada, the U.S., Australia, Chile, and Italy
Data files
Feb 02, 2026 version files 172.25 MB
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body_measurements_formatted-20260108T174601Z-1-001.zip
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metadata.txt
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ovaries_and_spermathecae_formatted-20260108T174607Z-1-001.zip
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README.md
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Abstract
Honey bee queens were sampled from diverse global origins to investigate relationships between morphometrics and pheromone profiles. Queens were sourced from producers in Italy, Australia, Chile, and multiple sources within the U.S. and Canada. We acquired high resolution images of n=95 queen heads, wings, basitarsi, ovaries, and spermathecae, which can be further analyzed to extract morphometric information using image processing software.
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.931zcrk0p
Description of the data and file structure
Photographs of queen honey bee body parts to facilitate extraction of morphometric features
Files and variables
File: body_measurements_formatted-20260108T174601Z-1-001.zip
Description: Contains photographs of queen heads, hind legs, wings, and pinned remains with ruler for scale
File: ovaries_and_spermathecae_formatted-20260108T174607Z-1-001.zip
Description: Contains photographs of queen ovaries and spermathecae with ruler for scale
File: metadata.txt
Description:
Variables
- Sample: Queen number (corresponds to QB_xxx in image file names)
- Location: Country (if outside Canada) or province (if within Canada) of queen origin
- Breed: Queen "breed", if known
- Supplier: Anonymized producer label
- Shipment_batch: Queens in the same batch were shipped together from the same supplier
- Transit_days: Shipping duration
- Vaccine: Whether or not the queen received an AFB vaccine
- Country: Country of origin
- Category: Foreign or domestic, where "foreign" indicates sources outside Canada and "domestic" indicates sources within Canada
Code/software
ImageJ (any version; raw, unprocessed images are provided)