Please see the attached for a bee biologist job advertisement from The Ohio State University (department of Entomology). Karen Goodell...
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Goodell, Karen
karengoodell66
Aug 31, 2010 5:56 pm
Hello, Please see attached file for the proofs of our manuscript (uncorrected) scheduled to come out in the next issue of Annual Review of Entomology. Regards,...
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Goodell, Karen
karengoodell66
Sep 2, 2010 4:22 pm
The following position is open to both national and international candidates. Please contact Daniel Herms (herms.2@...) with any questions. Assistant...
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Kathy Bilton
pvasshep
Sep 3, 2010 3:25 am
Just heard this on the radio (WAMU out of Washington broadcasts it at 11 PM on weeknights) http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/asithappens/aihstreaming_20100902_02.wma...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 3, 2010 5:53 am
Hi Rob, L. zonulum and L. leucozonium belong to the palearctic leucozonium species group of Lasioglossum sensu stricto as demonstrated by the morphological ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 3, 2010 12:45 pm
All: We are revising the Handy Bee Manual and have added L. zonulum and a Psuedoanthidium sp. to the list of North American Alien bees. Are there other bee...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 3, 2010 4:51 pm
Sam: Thanks for updating the manual. For the record, please note that the Pseudoanthidium [not "Psuedoanthidium"] was first discovered by Sarah Kornbluth in...
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Cory Sheffield
corysheffield
Sep 3, 2010 5:12 pm
Hello all, It would be nice to barcode these specimens! As the number of bee species barcoded from all over the world increases, these specimens may...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Sep 3, 2010 5:16 pm
Folks- I am curious (trying not to be appalled) as to why someone would want to kill Peponapis bees en masse with pan trapping? What can't be learned from...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 3, 2010 6:21 pm
Hi Cory, I agree that we should barcode these specimens and any other interesting bee specimens as quickly as possible for the reasons you mention and others,...
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Vincent Tepedino
Vince.Tepedino@...
Sep 3, 2010 6:30 pm
Thank you James for speaking up for squash bees. I too was put off by this "promising" new technique for sending Pepos and who knows what else to the pin-yard...
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David_r_smith@...
Sep 3, 2010 7:05 pm
I thought the original point of using these milk jug traps with the flower blossom was an alternative when study-sanctioned pantrapping is uneffective due to...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Sep 3, 2010 7:11 pm
Vince and Jim: I agree. What is the point in passively collecting large numbers of a well known and easily monitored species? Pan traps may have their uses...
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Laurence Packer
laurencepacker@...
Sep 3, 2010 7:54 pm
Greetings At present, capacity for us to deal with barcoding bees is likely to soon decrease substantially. I may have a few months of full time funds left...
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Sharon Muczynski
muczynski.sh...
Sep 3, 2010 8:38 pm
Bee Group, I too, have been concerned about unnecessary killing of bees. As a matter of fact I did my whole insect collection for Entomology last year with...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 3, 2010 9:03 pm
Certain bee species and a very few bee faunas are well known and can be repeatedly sampled, so that adequate information can be obtained using observation or...
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Vincent Tepedino
Vince.Tepedino@...
Sep 3, 2010 9:57 pm
________________________________ From: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com [mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John S. Ascher Sent: Friday, September...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 4, 2010 1:24 am
"manic collectors, those who buy t-shirts that say "I collect, therefore I am"" Straw men if I've ever seen one. Here's another one: "If the objective is ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 4, 2010 12:31 pm
All: What interesting and passionate people we have on this listserv. This current thread reminds me of the differences between two of my favorite poets the...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 4, 2010 3:50 pm
All: Well said Sam! "a good survey methodology demonstrates low methodological variance and low bias" Maybe for ecologists (i.e. worthy scientists as opposed...
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Laurence Packer
laurencepacker@...
Sep 4, 2010 4:16 pm
And we should point out that "easily" identified "species'' such as Halictus ligatus are usually the ones where there is a larger than average repository of ...
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pollinator2001
Sep 4, 2010 5:25 pm
I just wanted to alert folks that Wal-Mart has a supply of kids plastic pencil boxes. They are too small for a real collection, but just right for temporarily...
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Matthias Buck
buckmb@...
Sep 4, 2010 8:15 pm
Dave: If those are plastic boxes just make sure that you keep them open for most of the time while specimens are still drying. Otherwise you might grow some ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 5, 2010 12:38 pm
All: I have revised the section on net collecting bees in the manual. Take a look below and see if there is anything you think needs to be added or altered. ...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Sep 6, 2010 8:34 pm
Dear Sam: I like the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the novels of Vlad-the-Impaler-Nabokov (The National Lampoon, 1972) and I've killed hundreds of bees since...
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Strange, James
james.strange@...
Sep 7, 2010 11:55 pm
Sam et al., Thanks for your thoughtful posts. It is indeed a diverse group that works on bees. I hate to pick at scabs, but during the flurry of posts last...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 8, 2010 12:01 pm
Jamie: Well spoken. Your logic is sound and reasonable, but I do want to comment a bit more on large scale surveys and their role in the understanding and ...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Sep 8, 2010 2:09 pm
Dear Sam: Much of the problem is that we survey insects quite differently from how we survey vertebrates and we're willing to live with a segregated protocol. ...
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Dave Green
pollinator2001
Sep 8, 2010 2:26 pm
... From: Sam Droege ... I was extremely reluctant to kill bees when I first started. For this reason, I still prefer netting over pan trapping. But I've...
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Greenstone, Matt
Matt.Greenstone@...
Sep 8, 2010 3:02 pm
As an ecologist interested in the role of flowering plant diversity and provenance on insect biodiversity and biocontrol, I've found this discussion important,...
