Canterbury Museum (CMNZ) collection insect specimen-plant flower interactions

This dataset compromises insect-plant flower interactions recorded from the entomology collections of Canterbury Museum, New Zealand (CMNZ). All invertebrate records were extracted from the Museum Vernon database. This included field collection metadata indicating if an insect and plant flower interaction had occurred. A large proportion of records are specimens collected as part of research by Richard Primack in the 1970s, from insects collected from flowering inflorences. Data was cleaned using OpenRefine v.3.6.2. Insect and plant names were reconciled using the GlobalNames extension in OpenRefine. Data was prepared for submission to the Global Biotic Interaction (GloBI) network. This data makes part of a paper submission to the Journal of Applied Entolomolgy Call for Papers on neglected insects pollinators. If accepted this publication will be linked to this dataset.本数据集收录了新西兰坎特伯雷博物馆（Canterbury Museum, 缩写CMNZ）昆虫学馆藏中的昆虫-植物花部互作记录。所有无脊椎动物记录均提取自该馆的弗农数据库（Museum Vernon Database），其中包含标注了昆虫与植物花部是否发生互作的野外采集元数据。其中大部分标本为1970年代理查德·普里马克（Richard Primack）开展相关研究时采集，采自处于开花期的花序。本数据集使用OpenRefine v.3.6.2进行了数据清洗，并通过OpenRefine的GlobalNames扩展工具完成了昆虫与植物物种名称的匹配校准。数据集已完成整理，以提交至全球生物互作（Global Biotic Interaction, GloBI）网络。本数据集相关内容已投稿至《应用昆虫学杂志》（Journal of Applied Entomology）“被忽视的传粉昆虫”专题征稿，若稿件被录用，该学术出版物将与本数据集建立关联。