Monitoring of Oak processionary larvae (Thaumetopoea processionea) in the province of East Flanders, Belgium

Occurrence
Latest version published by Province East Flanders on Dec 9, 2025 Province East Flanders
Publication date:
9 December 2025
Published by:
Province East Flanders
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

Monitoring of Oak processionary larvae (Thaumetopoea processionea) in the province of East Flanders, Belgium is a historical occurrence dataset published by the Province East Flanders (Belgium). The dataset is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each occurrence record an occurrenceID, date, location, quantification where available and scientific name. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/data-publication/issuesWe have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution License. We would appreciate it if you follow the INBO norms for data use (https://www.inbo.be/en/norms-data-use) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don't hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via opendata@inbo.be.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,558 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Boets P, Brosens D (2025). Monitoring of Oak processionary larvae (Thaumetopoea processionea) in the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.10. Province East Flanders. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=pov-oakprocessionary-occurrences&v=1.10

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Province East Flanders. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: db4f57f9-874a-43cc-8ce1-0465e14f3396.  Province East Flanders publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Keywords

Occurrence; monitoring nuisance species

Contacts

Pieter Boets
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Province East Flanders
BE
Dimitri Brosens
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE

Geographic Coverage

East Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.681, 3.378], North East [51.51, 4.587]

Taxonomic Coverage

Thaumetopoea processionea

Kingdom Animalia
Species Thaumetopoea processionea

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2001-06-07 / 2021-08-26

Sampling Methods

visual observation reports originating from municipalities, citizen science...

Study Extent East Flanders
Quality Control all records are validated

Method step description:

  1. The source data for this standardized occurrence dataset is retrieved from Province East Flanders
  2. Mapping of data was done with R markdown script: https://github.com/inbo/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/eikenprocessierups-occurrences/scr
  3. The resulting Darwin Core data files are uploaded to the INBO IPT (https://ipt.inbo.be) and documented with metadata.
  4. The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.

Additional Metadata

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers db4f57f9-874a-43cc-8ce1-0465e14f3396
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=pov-oakprocessionary-occurrences