Robinson, Probably cheaper in the long run to buy them after you consider buying the plastic, painting it, cutting it, purchasing all the components, etc. I...
1933
Robinson Wainwright S...
rsudan@...
Jan 20, 2012 10:43 pm
Have any clever folks out there made their own vane traps? Thanks, Robinson...
1932
Jay Warner at AT_T
jay.warner3@...
Jan 20, 2012 9:01 pm
Yup, Tanglefoot works very nicely in Wisconsin, too. And it still gets dust covered & ineffective after a time. Jay ... Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner...
1931
David_r_smith@...
Jan 20, 2012 4:07 pm
Robinson, I use a 50:50 mixture of tech grade propylene glycol and water, with a dash of soap to break the surface tension. My traps are 12 oz cups that are...
1930
Daniel Kjar
kjard_us
Jan 20, 2012 3:39 pm
The ant world has had luck with wire rings on the limbs and petiole. Not me personally but others have. ... -- Dr. Daniel Kjar Assistant Professor of Biology ...
1929
Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Jan 20, 2012 3:37 pm
Marks from paint pens are easy to apply but have worn off rather quickly on soil nesting bees I've worked with. Â Enamel paints are more permanent but harder...
1928
Robinson Wainwright S...
rsudan@...
Jan 20, 2012 1:19 am
I should add to this that I am working in Southern Mississippi and plan to deploy around 1000 traps on longleaf pine savanna and pine plantations. Hope that...
1927
pollinator2001
Jan 20, 2012 1:13 am
... Or use paint pens, which I would think would be more appropriate to put a small dot on the thorax of smaller bees. I don't know how long these last, as...
1926
Laurence Packer
laurencepacker@...
Jan 20, 2012 12:56 am
Greetings How to do this might depend on where you are doing it. I have left propylene glycol pans out in the Atacama desert for a month or more. Often I catch...
1925
Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Jan 20, 2012 12:31 am
... Welcome! ... Others here may have a better answer; I've only used it in malaise traps, which aren't as prone to evaporation (nor worries about surface...
1924
pollinator2001
Jan 20, 2012 12:24 am
http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A2=ind1201&L=BEE-L&F=&S=&P=132622 Honey bees as canary in the mine? I would recommend anyone...
1923
Robinson Wainwright S...
rsudan@...
Jan 20, 2012 12:02 am
Hi all, I'm brand new to this group, so school me on the etiquete if I get it wrong. I've got 3 questions: 1) If using glycol cup traps, what concentration...
1922
keith_langdon@...
Jan 19, 2012 9:02 pm
I will be out of the office starting Mon 01/02/2012 and will not return until Tue 07/28/2015. Contact Becky Nichols at 865-436-1702 for pressing business....
1921
Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Jan 19, 2012 8:58 pm
I find Tanglefoot works reasonably well to keep Crematogaster and Solenopsi out of bee and wasp domiciles. They are the main problem ants in my area, the...
1920
Gordon.Hutchings@...
Jan 19, 2012 7:53 pm
Denise, Mount your boxes on stakes or even better contained within a shelter box attached to stakes, and tanglefoot the stakes above the vegetation line to...
1919
Walters, Denise
Denise.Walters@...
Jan 19, 2012 7:39 pm
We put in bee boxes several years ago and have found nothing in them but ants. Any suggestions? Denise L. Walters, Ph.D. Principal Scientist Analytical...
1918
David_r_smith@...
Jan 19, 2012 7:31 pm
sumac (Rhus sp) works too as a twig substrate for nests...
1917
pollinator2001
Jan 19, 2012 7:16 pm
... River cane (Arundinaria gigantea) - a common plant here in the Southeast - makes an excellent source with a variety of hole sizes. I cut them beside the...
1916
Gordon.Hutchings@...
Jan 19, 2012 6:29 pm
Jason, I have built some high-speed steel blades for my tablesaw (to save using a router) and have 5/16" and 1/4" u-bottomed channels and I use a hand-router...
1915
Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Jan 19, 2012 6:00 pm
The only thing I might add to Jim Cane's response is this: emphasize to people who are making trap nests to attract pollinators (and, to be honest, a lot of...
1914
Gordon.Hutchings@...
Jan 19, 2012 5:40 pm
Folks, I'm going to go out on a limb here. Here's my post to Paul Goldstein, deciding to include for all after seeing others putting stuff out there on this...
1913
jason graham
jgrahambeesn...
Jan 19, 2012 5:10 pm
Hello, I completely agree with Dr. Goldstein and have been working to develop a citizen science project where participants can set up a bee box in their...
1912
Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Jan 19, 2012 4:16 pm
Paul- Krombein's book is always a good guide, esp. since most of the work was focused in the D.C. area. I agree, a good, maybe great, educational opportunity,...
1911
Paul Goldstein
drpzgoldstein@...
Jan 19, 2012 3:10 pm
Hi Folks, In the wake of some fairly intensive native bee inventories in southeastern Massachusetts, I've been encouraging some of our more enthusiastic ...
1910
Michael Orr
michael_chri...
Jan 17, 2012 3:34 pm
Hello, Yet another guide has been extended westward. This time it's the males of the genus Centris, with a little over thirty species. The female guide is ...
1909
Michael Orr
michael_chri...
Jan 17, 2012 3:34 pm
Hello, At long last, the Exomalopsis guide has been completed for both genders for the entire US. The species pair of E. birkmanni and E. solani is one of the ...
1908
Michael Orr
michael_chri...
Jan 17, 2012 3:17 pm
Hello, The Anthophora female guide has now also been completed. As with the males, this covers their distribution in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. I ...
1907
Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Jan 16, 2012 9:26 pm
The attachments arrived this afternoon. They were sent by Dr. David Roubik. Here we have two opposing views on the same important topic. Peter...
1906
Joan Milam
joan_milam
Jan 12, 2012 7:29 pm
A workshop on the identification of eastern Lasioglossum (Dialictus) taught by Dr. Jason Gibbs at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, March 23 – 25,...
1905
Julio A. Genaro
polimita@...
Jan 12, 2012 1:56 pm
Hi Dave Interesting findings about Dialictus! I found in Dominican Republic, Valle Nuevo National Park that Lasioglossum sp, Habralictellus group was active...
