Occurrence Record Dataset from "Annotated checklist of the bees of Bonaire, with a focus on host plants"

This is the occurrence dataset created for the publication "Annotated checklist of the bees of Bonaire, with a focus on host plants". Observation and specimen data were assembled for this dataset, with the majority of records obtained during the Bonaire Estafette Expeditie (BEE). All citizen science records from Observation.org and iNaturalist.org up to December 2023 have been critically reviewed.A project was created (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flower-visiting-pollinators-of-the-abc-islands) to improve standardized data collecting of plant-pollinator interactions and on observation.org the standardized fields for interactions were used.Records from passive trapping methods are not included. All bees were either observed or collected by hand or insect net. The majority of specimens will be accessible in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (RMNH), Leiden (the Netherlands). A synoptic collection is retained at the Zoological Collections in Tartu, Estonia (TUZ). The occurrence dataset is conform Darwin Core (DwC): https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms