For those of you bee biologists working on Monitoring programs. I would recommend this course. .... I will be one of the course leaders too, so as a bonus I...
Dear Colleagues: The recent messages indicate it looks like a number of us will be interviewed during pollinator week. May I make a suggestion? Now is the ...
As I was typing the previous message, someone came in with a long-lost pile of reprints of the following: Timberlake, P.H. (1980) Supplementary Studies on the...
Dear Pollinator lists, The state legislature in New Hampshire is considering funding a study of "the use of pesticides, herbicides, and their alternatives in...
All, Last October Sam Droege sent some information on Ohio State's site, http://specimage.osu.edu. When I went to the site, I found that it requires a...
All: We will be testing a new (for us) bee trap this year. This involves a large circular pan (e.g., cut out bottom of a bucket), and a plexiglass/lucite...
Hello all, I am currently several weeks into a native bee inventory of the Black Hills in South Dakota. For part of the collecting I am following Mr. Droege's...
All: A single slot opened up for the week of July 5th bee ID course in West Virginia. Contact me if you are interested. sam Sam Droege sdroege@... w...
On 1 May 2010 I caught a female Osmia taurus in a bee bowl in western Massachusetts (Montague, MA). Sam Droege confirmed the identification and mentioned that...
  NYPD resident 'bee expert' Anthony Planakis ( he states that he learned bee handling from his father) vacumed up approx 15,000 workers and their queen...
All, I received some label paper from BioQuip, but it is beige, not white. when I contacted them, they responded: "HI the paper is off white ledger paper that...
Hello everybody, I'm in the middle of a research project through which I monitor the bee populations on several farms located in the south-central PA. Last...
Good afternoon everyone, I wanted to share my most recent illumination with a problem I was having...I used to get very frustrated when, after spending the...
Folks- The masterful book "Insect Pollination of Crops" has been scanned and is on-line, searchable by crop, for all to use. However, you might not locate it...
All: Joshua Thomas (a BIML intern) has taken on of Graham Snodgrass' magnificent photos of Ptilothrix bombiformis and created a mappable diagram of that bee's...
All: As part of a large National Park Service Project we will be surveying alpine areas from the Southern Rockies and Sierra's up into Alaska. Since the bee...
All- Sorry about the quality of these pictures but I think you can get the idea. Here is a bit of background. In the prior 3 days close to 10 bowl lines of 30...
Hello all, I'm hoping to visit and photograph some *Anthophora abrupta* nests this spring, and I was wondering if anyone knows of any colonies in the ...
All: Does anyone have experience shipping insect samples in 70% alcohol? I have contacted the US postal service for shipping rules and regulations but have...
All: Below is an announcement for such a course which will be held at the National Conservation Training Center in West Virginia on the week of July 5th (I...
All: I will be up at Acadia helping with the BioBlitz and want to encourage you to come and here is why. 1. What an opportunity to learn first hand about all...
USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory Update New State Records Lasioglossum reticulatum ? Lindsey Fenner from Savannah River Plant Melitoma...
All: Today, Shelley Small passed on the following link regarding "Insect Walls." These essentially being elaborate and artistic structures for hole nesting...
Dear Colleagues: Drs. M. Arduser, Retha Meier and I are completing a three-year study on the pollination of the threatened wildflower, Physaria filiforme...
Hi all, Can anyone identify the bees in these photos? I'm working remotely with a blueberry grower (Dan Eiser, Blueberries on the Buffalo Farm in Tennessee) on...
For those who are interested in honeybees swarming, these are from Norfolk, VA. Barbara J. Abraham, Ph.D. Associate Professor SEEDS Ecology Chapter Advisor ...
All: I have been running a series of small bowl experiments looking at a number of properties of bowls. Looking back on the many such experiments I have run,...
