3/1/2011 Bee Faunas Bee Faunas are now available for sharing in the Faunas ftp site: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/Faunas/ If you have...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Mar 2, 2011 4:38 pm
All: Spring is here and that means time to start putting out bowl traps. In the past many of you have had problems obtaining the standard 3.25 ounce white...
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pollinator2001
Mar 2, 2011 11:33 pm
We just got a brief clip on our wild bee house on Channel 13 in Florence. We dedicated the sanctuary last year on Earth Day. You can see the clip at:...
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Alex Surcica
aps15@...
Mar 4, 2011 2:04 pm
Good morning: Please find attached the list with the first 15 members of the Northeast Pollinator IPM Working Group. Thank you to all those who submitted their...
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T'ai Roulston
thr8z@...
Mar 4, 2011 9:06 pm
Bee Nest Afficionados: I received this photo today from someone who attended a bee talk I gave. The photo was taken in northern Virginia May 10, 2006 and the ...
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Eric Mader
eric@...
Mar 4, 2011 9:27 pm
Hi T'ai, This looks exactly like the nests my Osmia (both lignaria and cornifrons) commonly produce when tunnel-like cavities are not available. This is very ...
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Dave Hunter
dave@...
Mar 4, 2011 9:54 pm
I agree with Eric. You’re probably looking at 3 different Osmia (same species) results. However, what is interesting is that you have 3 different types of...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Mar 4, 2011 9:54 pm
All, we are wrapping up a number of student tests from last year....here is the result of one small study... You can see the results of these another test at...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Mar 4, 2011 10:36 pm
Although they are not typical, Osmia lignaria occasionally make nests like that in larger cavities. They usually do a better job with cell symmetry than that ...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Mar 8, 2011 2:38 pm
Dear Colleagues: Ah yes, attracting the "right (prettiest) pollinator" to your garden is now a big time advertisement in nursery catalogues. This catalogue...
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Eric Mader
eric@...
Mar 9, 2011 8:43 pm
Hi Jil, I think the color variation in the mud is just a matter of the different patches of soil where the mother bee(s) collected mud (variations in clay...
Dear David: I'm sending this article to some Australian colleagues. It will make them laugh. The fact is that feral bees became a problem before the...
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Charley Eiseman
charleyeiseman
Mar 11, 2011 3:36 am
Hi Eric (and other bee nest aficionados), I'm curious to hear how you would rule out the possibility that the closed cells in the top row were made by spider...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Mar 12, 2011 2:46 pm
All: It has been a while since I have put out a general listing of our major categories of resources for the study, monitoring, and identification of bees....
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Mar 12, 2011 6:10 pm
All: We have been gathering more faunal pdfs and adding them to the ftp site. ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/Faunas/ You can see that list at...
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Tim Hatten
timhatten@...
Mar 12, 2011 8:12 pm
Sam, Thanks for this update. Lot's of great stuff here and in your proceeding email concerning list of Faunas. Tim *********************** Timothy D. Hatten,...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Mar 13, 2011 7:37 pm
3/13/2011 Photos Tracy Zarrillo, Deana Crumbling, Denise Williams, Ellen Bulger, and Nancy Adamson are all adding photos to the DL website from their own...
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Chanda Henne
csbutrfly12
Mar 15, 2011 7:38 pm
Hi Everyone, I recently started working on a project looking at pollinators of watermelons in the Rio Grande Valley, and was asked a question by a grower that...
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Cowden, Nancy
oc8393mu
Mar 15, 2011 7:47 pm
Chandra, I'm not absolutely sure with watermelons, but many plants will alter the uv patterns flowers produce depending on the reproductive status of the...
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Ronald Carroll
ronecology@...
Mar 15, 2011 8:08 pm
I don't have the answer but recently I have been thinking about yeast contamination degrading nectar. I wonder what the spatial and temporal pattern of yeast...
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Jaime A. Florez
jaimef69
Mar 16, 2011 8:47 am
Hi Chanda, As Nancy says - change of flower color - I have seen cotton flowers changing in the same way, from white to pink when pollination occurs (this is...
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pollinator2001
Mar 16, 2011 2:09 pm
... I would think this a fantastic opportunity for a research project. Does the color change at deposition of pollen, at initiation of pollen tube growth, at...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Mar 16, 2011 5:50 pm
The color change in Lupinus (at least texensis) is age related and occurs with or without pollination (Schaall and Leverich, 1980 Southwestern Naturalist ...
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Chanda Henne
csbutrfly12
Mar 16, 2011 6:40 pm
Thank you everyone for your responses. I've never worked with crop pollination before, and really don't know much about watermelon other than it tastes good. ...
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Eugene J. Scarpulla
ejscarp@...
Mar 17, 2011 11:31 am
The Johns Hopkins University Press is curently offering Charles D. Michener's The Bees of the World (2007 second edition) at a 58% discount, reduced from...
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Peter L Borst
peterlborst
Mar 18, 2011 11:41 am
Hi all I have been doing research with the idea of writing an article on insect/flower coevolution. (I am a frequent contributor to the American Bee Journal)....
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nativebeesdotcom
nativebeesdo...
Mar 18, 2011 1:01 pm
Peter, The work of Lars Chittka, a scientist from the UK, is a scientist worth studying. Some of the most interesting research on coevolution of flowers and...
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Peter L Borst
peterlborst
Mar 18, 2011 6:50 pm
... I have accumulated 70 papers on the subject, including the special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitled 'Darwin and the evolution of flowers'...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Mar 19, 2011 1:27 am
All Below is an article that seems to be making its way through the state agriculture agencies... and likely elsewhere. I found several of the statements in...
