All: John Pickering is out of the country right now and as the head of Discoverlife that means that he is not around to tweek server problems and sometimes...
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Nick Stewart
nick.s2art
Dec 12, 2012 6:24 pm
Awesome, thanks so much! I'm on the cusp of submitting our first paper, our faunal survey of 2010 native apoidea in N GA apple orchards, from the first year's...
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Jason Gibbs
dialictus@...
Dec 12, 2012 4:53 pm
Yes, that is correct. For all those people who have L. mitchelli identified by me, they should all be switched to L. hitchensi. Identification issues aside,...
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Rykken, Jessica
jrykken@...
Dec 12, 2012 2:33 pm
Calling bee photographers, I'm collaborating with the Encyclopedia of Life to develop a series of "bee observer cards" that will cover many aspects of bee...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Dec 12, 2012 1:29 pm
Thanks Jason for the new name. We need 100 more of you. If I have the interpretation correct we should all change any L. mitchelli in our databases to L....
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Jason Gibbs
dialictus@...
Dec 11, 2012 11:00 pm
The attached will be of relevance to all those collecting *Dialictus *in the eastern US. Cheers, Jason -- Jason Gibbs Post-Doctoral Associate Department of...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Dec 9, 2012 10:32 pm
All: There are characters for the male and female that are unique to that species that I forgot to mention.... Here you go as a tip...am incorporating into the...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Dec 9, 2012 8:54 pm
All: My nice tidy world view of eastern Ceratina was soundly disturbed by Rehan and Sheffield's recent revision. Here they added a new species (C. mikmaqi)...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Dec 3, 2012 1:04 am
Note that dictation software was used in this message and thus odd word swaps can slip in! All: Bowl traps work very well for monitoring and inventorying bees,...
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Susan Waters
smwaters@...
Nov 26, 2012 11:20 pm
Hello bee folks, I'm writing in hopes of publicizing some pollinator-related citizen science research, the Urban Pollination Project ...
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Haider Mare
mare.haider
Nov 22, 2012 8:45 am
Dear Beemonitoring group, I am a PhD student at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. We are currently analyzing the pollen host spectra of a selected group of osmiine...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 20, 2012 6:41 pm
All: Below is an announcement passed on to me by Josh Campbell regarding a special issue on pollinators in the Natural Areas Journal. They are looking for...
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Erik_Oberg@...
Nov 18, 2012 3:02 pm
I will be out of the office starting 11/13/2012 and will not return until 11/20/2012. I am out of the park, but please contact brent_steury@... for park ...
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PouleP
kyckly
Nov 18, 2012 9:33 am
Hi, This is one of six emails (Identification a - f) I am sending to ask for help with identification (I know full identification is often impossible from...
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PouleP
kyckly
Nov 18, 2012 9:32 am
Second email : photos, unfortunately not of great quality, but maybe enough for the family at least. Small black bee. hen...
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PouleP
kyckly
Nov 18, 2012 9:32 am
Same size and otherwise looks very much like the Amegilla quadrifasciata (? - Mail - Identification d) but with different colouring. hen...
Thyreus Has blue, but not really neon blue like the nitidulus (in pictures), but lighter, more like a strong powder blue. Sometimes looks as if there is a ...
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PouleP
kyckly
Nov 18, 2012 9:27 am
Looks like the Polistes fastidiotus but without the vertical white stripes on the thorax. hen Thank you for your patience....
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Nicholas Stewart
nick.s2art
Nov 12, 2012 2:19 pm
Hey Dave; Guess I'll start with a question: do you remember me @ all from PSU?? I used to unofficially curate the Frost as a side duty for Dr. KC Kim as I ...
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Anita M. Collins
frozenbeedoc@...
Nov 12, 2012 1:31 am
Honey bee queens are routinely anesthetized with CO2 for artificial insemination and then retreated a day later to help start oviposition. with workers it does...
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elaineceleste
Nov 11, 2012 12:59 am
RE knocking bees out temporarily for ID......I remember some studies from the 90s that found increased larval ejection in bumble bee colonies following CO2...
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lkuder@...
lkuder...
Nov 9, 2012 8:35 pm
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...
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Jessica Beckham
jessbeck47
Nov 9, 2012 5:23 pm
Dear Beemonitoring Group, I just wanted to send a thank you out for all of the thoughtful, informative responses that y'all provided! Â What an intelligent...
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Charles Guevara
icecilliate123
Nov 9, 2012 4:03 pm
... From: Charles Guevara <icecilliate123@...> To: Asif Sajjad <asifbinsajjad@...> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re:...
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Kvisberglien Evie Chr...
evie.christiansen@...
Nov 9, 2012 7:59 am
I have seen that the experienced field workers here use compressed CO2, the kind used for bicycles (used for filling flat tires). They are available in any...
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manjishthabhattacharyya
manjishthabh...
Nov 9, 2012 4:39 am
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...
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Rykken, Jessica
jrykken@...
Nov 8, 2012 11:57 pm
This is a pretty good article on the general topic of killing insects for research. http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/pdf/whywekillbugs.pdf Jessica Rykken ...
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David_r_smith@...
Nov 8, 2012 11:50 pm
I couldn't agree more with Virginia's recent post on the value of collecting the voulcher specimens. There are some bees I could probably ID if they were live...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 8, 2012 11:40 pm
Hi Jessica You have seen some nice thoughtful replies to your questions from the list and undoubtedly you have gotten more offline. Similar to what Jack has...
