Hello All, I am a PhD student who is developing a project to assess bee pollinator diversity in urban gardens in my area (Denton, Texas). Â I understand that...
Hello, Would anyone happen to know if there's GIS data for N American bees? So far, I've found maps for Africanized bees but none related to our native bees. A...
Dear Members, I am a PhD student working on bee diversity in my state of West Bengal in India. I have sampled a blue banded bee from mango tree using bowl...
I'm posting this for a colleague. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Mary Jamieson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Entomology,...
For those who may be interested, my revision of Dialictus of the eastern US seems to be freely available at the Zootaxa website. This might not last. ...
Hello All, I want to clear my concept. Which is true actually "Co-evolution is an extreme example of mutualism" or "Mutualism is an extreme example of...
Absolutely. What should I be looking for? What taxa are the most common hosts for Meloe? I'll keep an eye out. Are they Strepsiptera? MANAGING NATIVE...
Hey Sam & beemonitoring; My study is a multi-year, season-long assessment of native pollination services, as well as an intensive bio-inventory of native...
Hello All, I am beginning my first research project of Graduate school and I need your help finding a study method. My project is to determine what are the...
hi all, I got several requests to share the papers I heard about on the beemonitoring listserve related to pollinator diversity (not abundance) driving seed...
Hi all, It is amazing to have an enthusiastic group working on bees. Well I am looking at the plant-pollinator interactions with special reference to the ...
Hi Everyone, I am beginning to assemble my sources for research of Bombus terricola in Pennsylvania. I am trying to establish presence/absence over the last...
Dear all, I have read about an apparent failed introduction of squash bees to the Hawaiian Islands for cucurbit production. I do not know if these were ...
hi all, I am wondering if any of you know of studies that have found effects of pollinator diversity (independent of abundance) on seed set. I am particularly...
Just wanted to say I LOVE the new species synopsis popups in DL, VERY HELPFUL!! Theyre constantly reinventing the wheel - in the good sense of the phrase!! Go...
Note that dictation software was used in this message and thus odd word swaps can slip in! All: I am in the middle of helping a group of people write up a set...
Some members may be interested in a recent article by Dr. Gretchen D. Jones (2012) "Pollen extraction from insects" in the journal Palynology Vol. 36, pp....
Hi folks! I am a postdoc at UC Berkeley trying to round up 2 species of bumbles stored in ethanol for genetic analysis. The project in which I am involved...
I'm trying to put together a simple key (note oxymoron) to bee families and genera of my area-- northern Washington State--just as an exercise in getting...
Hi All, This is going to sound like an odd question, but have any of you heard of a study being conducted at either University of Washington or Washington...
I'd like to check in again with this Agapostemon: I found I had collected what is probably the same bee during the summer. Using 'Bees of Northwestern America:...
Dr David Bogler runs the virtual pollen museum at the Missouri Botanical Garden (view it online). Here are his comments about the new, Australian, pollen,...
Here's another link to a video on pollen but this one is about viewing pollen grains found on pinned insects in the national collection in Australia. The...
Here is a link to nice, short documentary showing how pollen grains of different species differ and why they differ. Just a word of warning, many of the...
Dear Colleagues: Dr. Nicolas Vereecken is a most talented and young biologist living in Belgium. His research specializes on the evolution of European bees...
