All: I am just back from a marathon collecting trip to South Carolina and Florida. During that time I put out about 1400 bee bowls and came up with several...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jun 8, 2007 2:05 pm
All: Due to travel I am going to have to shift our open lab from Thursday of next week to Wednesday. Sorry for any inconvenience. sam Sam Droege...
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glebuhn
Jun 14, 2007 9:50 pm
Dear All, I'm working on some models of bumble bee population dynamics and would like to test them against some real data sets. We are looking for data sets...
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beeman_4602@...
beeman_0406
Jun 15, 2007 2:33 pm
Gretchen, Peter Scott and I have a three year data set on the bees of the black oak savannas in northern Indiana if you are interested. We are currently...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jul 5, 2007 1:48 pm
All: I have put together a brief evaluation of the species/genera patterns of our past captures of native bees in bowls and while netting. That summary is...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jul 6, 2007 12:12 pm
All: Recently I was looking at hair dryers in the drug store. I was struck by the Conair Ionshine whose literature states: "How do ions affect the hair? Ions...
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Asif Sajjad
asifbinsajjad
Jul 8, 2007 8:26 am
Hello All! I am working on pollination syndromes. I want to measure flower colors. Is there any colour measuring instrument or any clour measuring chart in...
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Leo Shapiro
lshapiro@...
Jul 8, 2007 1:15 pm
Check out the work of Lars Chittka, if you are not already familiar with it:http://www.biology.qmul.ac.uk/research/staff/chittka/chittkalab/index.html has many...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Jul 8, 2007 1:33 pm
See page 58 of Techniques for Pollination Biologists. Which recommends: http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/publications/pubs_library_colourchart.asp David Inouye ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jul 9, 2007 12:45 pm
All: Attached is a summary of a bee survey that the National Botanic Garden Staff and volunteers did in Bartholdi Park a densly planted garden next to the...
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Leslie Saul
lsaul@...
Jul 11, 2007 11:48 am
Hi Sam, Thanks very much for this. I have been wondering whether Habropoda and Anthophora come readily to the bowls since some localities in Utah have caught...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jul 11, 2007 12:43 pm
Leslie: Both those genera are generally uncommon in our area, but do appear both in bowls and while netting. At this point I can't say that one or the other...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jul 11, 2007 1:22 pm
All: Attached is a summary of the bees found in the late summer and fall of 2006 at the Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. Similar...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jul 12, 2007 12:29 pm
All: Attached is a file containing the results of bowl and net captures of native bees found at Timber Ridge Camp along the Cacapon River in Hampshire County....
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David_r_smith@...
Jul 13, 2007 3:37 pm
Sam, You are as bad as I am collecting aquatic insects when I am on vacation with family. I got six new "lifer" stonefly genera in Oregon a week ago. When...
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Asif Sajjad
asifbinsajjad
Jul 19, 2007 11:15 am
Hello All! A bee is presented for identification. it is collected from Punjab, Pakistan. Please help me to find out its species. Best Regards Asif Sajjad...
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Malinda Slagle
malinda.slagle@...
Jul 20, 2007 1:33 pm
Hi all- I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the Nosema ceranae parasite that supposedly is affecting Spanish honeybee hives ...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Jul 20, 2007 4:35 pm
Dear Group, I've been talking to members of the colony collapse disorder research coallition of Penn State, USDA, ARS Beltsville, and North Carolina State U....
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David_r_smith@...
Aug 2, 2007 5:37 pm
I am new to the native bee monitoring world so please bear with me on a basic entomological question. Most of my previous monitoring work is on aquatic...
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beemonitoring@yahoogr...
Aug 12, 2007 3:19 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the beemonitoring group. File : /Bee...
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Asif Sajjad
asifbinsajjad
Aug 20, 2007 7:25 am
Hello Sam! Please guide me about any good digital camera. I want to take snaps of bees sitting on flowers from a considrable distance so that its activitiy may...
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Marie Springer
friendsofwal...
Aug 20, 2007 12:16 pm
I also hvae been looking for a good digital camera, but I have no problem getting up close, please let us both know if you can suggest something. Asif Sajjad...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Aug 24, 2007 6:31 pm
I can recommend the following as a high-send solution: a digital SLR camera with a good macro lens and a flash system. In specific, I use Nikon D200, a Nikon...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Aug 29, 2007 4:34 pm
All: My lab will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on September 19th to anyone who wants to identify specimens of bees (from eastern North America) or learn to...
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Marie Springer
friendsofwal...
Aug 29, 2007 5:19 pm
I want to try to come, It would be nice if I could Drag Dan with me, but I doubt he will make it, I will confirm if I am going \also where can I get the bee...
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C. Vispo
fep@...
Aug 30, 2007 12:10 am
Thanks Sam, I don't think we'll make it for the 19th, but we have had a relatively good collecting year, and Martin has been working away on ID's. (Always...
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Michael Feil
getmikie
Aug 30, 2007 11:27 am
Sam open lab sound good but I will be on travel. Caroline and I or off to Turkey and a few days in Brussels. Mike Feil getmikie@... ... From: Sam Droege...
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Richard Orr
odonata457
Aug 30, 2007 12:05 pm
Sam, Put me on the list for the 19th. I can work on some of the harder Assateague bees that I got this year. Richard Orr Mid-Atlantic Invertebrate Field...
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David_r_smith@...
Aug 30, 2007 4:32 pm
Sam, I will be helping teach a course at the FWS NCTC in Shepherdstown that week and can possibly sneak away in the afternoon. I might take you up on staying...
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Karen Wetherill
karen@...
Sep 10, 2007 7:10 pm
Dave, I have been working on bees in New Mexico. Our ranges probably overlap quite a bit. I am working out of the Sevilleta. So far I have a local key to...
