Hi Nicholas, I was wondering if you can post a photo(s) of your tea-ball/electric pump method of "hair-styling". I have tried without success to rig up a...
Dear all, I would like to ask you if any of you could provide me occurrence points of the bee species from the *Megachile *genus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)...
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Alicia Basilio
apis1b@...
Jul 3, 2011 6:12 pm
Hi, Have someone some ilustrate material about pupal anatomy in bees? ThK! Alicia ________________________________ De: Daniel Paiva Silva...
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Laurence Packer
laurencepacker@...
Jul 3, 2011 6:39 pm
Jerry Rozen has published many papers dealing with this and many of them will be available for free download from the AM Novitates website. Try:...
All: I was just passed a list of holotype and allotype specimens held at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, most, if not all, described by Swenk. While few...
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rachna pande
rachna.ento@...
Jul 6, 2011 10:37 am
Friends If anyone of you have soft copy of this article, then please send me it as early as possible....... 1. *KAZAFY, E., TAHA, A. & BAYOUMI, A. 2009. 'The...
Hello: Midway through my 2nd year of extensive sampling in my study's N GA apple orchards (spanning the breadth of the Piedmont Region of the state), I've...
All: In a recent trip the Nebraska State Entomological Museum I had a conversation with a Scarab-Head (Matt Paulsen) who mentioned that they use hand held...
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rachna pande
rachna.ento@...
Jul 7, 2011 8:50 am
Thanks to all for sending me this article..'The value of honey bees (Apis mellifera, L.) as pollinators of summer seed watermelon (Citrullus lanatus...
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Kimberly N. Russell
krussell@...
Jul 7, 2011 6:11 pm
Dear All, I am wondering if any of you have some suggestions for low-tech (low-cost!) ways to approximate soil compaction and soil composition...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Jul 7, 2011 8:08 pm
Kim- I'm attaching my 1991 bee soil survey, which uses differential sedimentation to classify soil textures (but do use the formal soil science techniques, as...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Jul 7, 2011 8:23 pm
... There's more to suitability than diameter, and any estimates based solely on diameter are going to vastly overestimate available nesting substrate. Only a...
Soil compaction meters are available from forestry supply outlets (like Ben Meadows), and presumably many other sources. best Jack  John L. Neff Central...
I Â have found megachilid nests in the dried stems and branches of a variety of annuals (giant ragweed and various other annuals with pithy stems) so I Â don't...
All: We are all familiar with the spring Osmia hole nesting species and there are plenty of websites to document that. An assumption in many of these ...
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Laurence Packer
laurencepacker@...
Jul 8, 2011 2:42 am
raspberries, raspberries, raspberries! Old stems perfect for many bees (at least three genera in my garden), the flowers are perfect for many more bees and the...
Is it important to the bees that the stems be allowed to stand through the winter? Or can they be cut and laid horizontal in a central location? --Deana From:...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Jul 8, 2011 3:59 pm
Folks- I can echo Laurence's advocacy for retaining the previous year's cut raspberry stems for Ceratina. It is working here in my yard in Utah, and on 300...
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Nichola E. Thompson
nthomps1@...
Jul 8, 2011 4:11 pm
hi all i was at the xerces training recently. we were reminded that some stems that are too tuff yet have pithy cores, may make good nesting sites. you'd use...
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Kimberly N. Russell
krussell@...
Jul 8, 2011 6:27 pm
Thanks to all who have reponded so far. Very useful information. ... Believe me, I am completely aware of this. I just need something to start with that an...
I have been trying to attract Anthidium to nest in artificial nesting blocks but haven't had much luck. Has anyone else tried this? -Matt...
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J. Scott MacIvor
jsmacivor@...
Jul 9, 2011 5:22 pm
Hi All, I'm in the first year of a multi-year PhD project (under the supervision of Dr. Laurence Packer) using nestboxes made from PVC piping and paper tubes -...
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becky_loncosky@...
Jul 9, 2011 8:02 pm
I will be out of the office starting 07/09/2011 and will not return until 07/18/2011. I will respond to your message when I return....
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Jul 10, 2011 5:47 pm
Dear Friends and Colleagues: Three or four years ago, Professor Luo Yi-bo (Beijing Academy of Sciences; CAS) invited me to participate in an international...
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L B
lrbest@...
Jul 10, 2011 10:36 pm
Hi Matt, I've had luck with trap-nesting *Dianthidium* in British Columbia, however I have not recorded any nests of *Anthidium *despite their co-occurrence...
Most Anthidium seem to nest in prexisting cavities in the soil so most species  won't show up in standard trap nest arrays.  Some people have had success by...
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Messinger, Wes NWP
Wes.Messinger@...
Jul 12, 2011 5:06 pm
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Please pass refs for these 2 methods below? Thx --W -- Wes Messinger Botanist, USACE Willamette Valley Projects ...
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Messinger, Wes NWP
Wes.Messinger@...
Jul 12, 2011 5:17 pm
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Woohoo this is fun. Idle notes from W OR: _Ceratina_ are at least investigating or bivouacking in _Perowskia_, ...
