I will be out of the office starting 03/30/2012 and will not return until 04/09/2012. I will answer my mail as soon as I can when I return. If there is...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Apr 3, 2012 5:42 pm
Dear Colleagues: Once again I request an identification of a bee on a flower...if possible. The warm-hot March in the midwest triggered the early flowering of...
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Sandra_Lary@...
Apr 3, 2012 10:05 pm
I will be out of the office starting 04/03/2012 and will not return until 04/05/2012....
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Elizabeth A Sellers
aussiebotanist
Apr 5, 2012 1:19 pm
Hi Folks, Does anyone have any records (preferably specimen-based) for Anthophorula micheneri or Hylaeus sparsus in the U.S.? I'm aware of those available from...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Apr 7, 2012 12:04 am
All....note that this is posted for Katherina by Sam Droege...to reach Katherina directly use her email below and not the reply button. sam ... Hi everyone, I...
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barbara.abraham@...
Apr 10, 2012 6:07 pm
All, While gardening last weekend I saw a Xylocopa carpenter bee on Vinca. It oriented its head at the outside bottom of the corolla for a few seconds, and I...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Apr 10, 2012 6:37 pm
There are a few references in the literature, mostly related to Corydalis , of "robber-like pollinators", bumble bees that rob but also serve as pollinators....
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Apr 10, 2012 7:13 pm
Waser (1974) mentioned the same phenomenon with Xylocopa californica robbing ocotillo flowers (Oecologia 39: 107-121). Â Nothing really odd here since...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Apr 10, 2012 7:51 pm
I think it's Waser 1979: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4215803.pdf?acceptTC=true Waser, N. M. (1979). "Pollinator availability as a determinant of ...
Has anyone sent this to this group? Seems like something all of you should see. It is really well done. Kim...
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Julie Tennis
julietennis@...
Apr 11, 2012 6:45 pm
Hello! I am creating a Pollinator Festival in Naselle, WA, near the mouth of the Columbia River. If you are in the region and would like to participate or ...
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Jason Gibbs
dialictus@...
Apr 12, 2012 5:02 pm
Hi all, If anyone has collected specimens of the following Lasioglossum species (or has some in their collections), I would be interested in examining them for...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Apr 12, 2012 7:55 pm
All: Why buy expensive Fiber Optic Lights when a flashlight will work just fine for microscope work? A number of years ago German Perilla from George Mason...
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Mark Vandever
vandeverm@...
Apr 13, 2012 9:19 pm
Hi all, We are thinking of using aniline blue to help prevent contamination of samples after each selective sweep netting. The idea is that after the specimen...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Apr 16, 2012 6:15 pm
Dear Peter (Weston): Please have a look at the attached illustration (YH062,jpg). Yvonne Hyde wonders if you can identify the two "green birds?" Are we...
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Erik_Oberg@...
Apr 17, 2012 1:12 am
I will be out of the office starting 04/16/2012 and will not return until 04/24/2012. I am out of the park, but please contact brent_steury@... for park ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Apr 18, 2012 8:59 pm
All Knowing how nice it would be to use mark-recapture techniques on bees and the difficulty in marking small bees made me take notice of the following new...
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Louise lynch
lilynch777
Apr 19, 2012 3:34 pm
Hello all! I am reaching out to you with regard to a sculpture artist who is interested in donating (or giving on permanent loan) some of his...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Apr 20, 2012 2:48 pm
Dear Colleagues: Dr. Richard Primack (Boston University) published an Op-ed piece in The New York TImes yesterday entitled, "Early Bloomers" (4/19/12). It...
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Paul Goldstein
drpzgoldstein@...
Apr 20, 2012 7:21 pm
Hmmm. My impression (from papers by Farnsworth & Ogurcak) was that concentrations of rare plants in New England generally appear to be clustering in...
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david almquist
bugalmquist
Apr 20, 2012 8:14 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/opinion/early-bloomers.html To: bernhap2@... CC: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com; pollinator@...;...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Apr 21, 2012 7:01 pm
A gardener sent this photo, taken in Maryland. Know what it is? Looks like it has some spider web or something like that on a wing....
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John Ascher
limon_cocha
Apr 21, 2012 8:05 pm
I think it's an Anthophora plumipes female, one of the exotic species introduced by Suzanne Batra et al. of the USDA. John ________________________________ ...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Apr 21, 2012 9:00 pm
... All of the photos I've seen of A. plumipes suggests the females are entirely black; e.g.: http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo12821.htm If the one in...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Apr 21, 2012 9:11 pm
Thanks John (and Doug). For what it's worth, Wikipedia says that females can be black or brown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthophora_plumipes At 04:05 PM...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Apr 22, 2012 2:06 am
All: Indeed it is A. plumipes...and they are not black like many of the European/British individuals. Their point of origin was Japan where they are lighter...
Anothophora plumipes was introduced in the 1980s as a possible agricultural pollinator to Beltsville, Maryland about 1 mile from my lab. They nest in clay...
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Leo Shapiro
leoshapiro99@...
Apr 22, 2012 3:44 pm
Now there's an excellent question, especially since this was not a century ago, before biologists knew any better!...
