Collection of wing images for conservation of honey bees (Apis mellifera) biodiversity in Europe

Identification of honey bee (Apis mellifera) from various parts of the world is essential for protection of their biodiversity. The identification can be based on wing measurements which is inexpensive and easy available. In order to develop such identification there are required reference samples from various parts or the world.

We provide collection of 26481 honey bee fore wing images from 13 countries in Europe: Austria (AT), Croatia (HR), Greece (GR), Moldova (MD), Montenegro (ME), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Serbia (RS), Slovenia (SI), Spain (ES), Turkey (TR). For each country there are three files starting with the two letter country code (indicated earlier in the parentheses): XX-wing-images.zip, XX-raw-coordinates.csv and XX-data.csv, which contain wing images, raw landmark coordinates and geographic coordinates, respectively. Files with prefix EU contain combined data from all countries.

The resolution of the wing images was provided in pixels per meter. If the resolution was not provided it is not known. In those cases only wing shape and not wing size can be analyzed. 

For analysis of the dataset see:

Oleksa, A., Căuia, E., Siceanu, A., Puškadija, Z., Kovačić, M., Pinto, M. A., Rodrigues, P. J., Hatjina, F., Charistos, L., Bouga, M., Prešern, J., Kandemir, İ., Rašić, S., Kusza, S., Tofilski, A. (2023). Honey bee (Apis mellifera) wing images: a tool for identification and conservation. GigaScience, 12, giad019. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad019

Oleksa, A., Căuia, E., Siceanu, A., Puškadija, Z., Kovačić, M., Pinto, M. A., Rodrigues, P. J., Hatjina, F., Charistos, L., Bouga, M., Prešern, J., Kandemir, I., Rašić, S., Kusza, S., Tofilski, A. (2023). Apis-wings-EU. WorkflowHub. https://doi.org/10.48546/WORKFLOWHUB.WORKFLOW.422.1