Gretchen LeBuhn is passing this along from an email that she received as possible interest. Not sure what the mechanism is here, but others may have some...
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Gretchen LeBuhn
glebuhn
Jan 28, 2013 4:19 pm
I jumped the gun - Angel didn't want her contact info out there. Please contact Sue Heavenrich if you are interested. Gretchen ... -- Gretchen LeBuhn ...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Jan 28, 2013 9:38 pm
... From: Katherine Ellis <katherine.ellis09@...> Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:08 PM Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Job: Native Bee Field Assistant, Penn State To:...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Feb 1, 2013 3:25 pm
All: Below is a link to a video demonstrating some of the more advanced (but highly useful) features of Discoverlife Identification Guides. ...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Feb 1, 2013 9:02 pm
All: The bee course listed below is run by North America's finest bee specialists and is a requirement for those getting into the field. Applications from...
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Eric Mader
eric@...
Feb 6, 2013 9:32 pm
Hi folks, Does anyone know of a simple way to query DiscoverLife for state-level species checklists? It's pretty clear that you can do it for whole countries,...
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Greenstone, Matt
Matt.Greenstone@...
Feb 8, 2013 1:35 pm
Dear Bee Folk, Karen McCormack of US EPA has been asked whether honey bees can inhale pesticides from dust particles (see below). My initial guess is that it...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Feb 11, 2013 1:29 pm
All: I just came across a small study of road-killed insects in Japan: http://clover.rakuno.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10659/1646/1/S-34-2-177.pdf While I think...
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david almquist
bugalmquist
Feb 11, 2013 2:28 pm
Or put huge sticky-trap panels on some vehicles and extrapolate from there. I've always found the number of 20 million leps in one week just in the state of...
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barbara.abraham@...
Feb 11, 2013 3:04 pm
Another source of error is scavenging on dead insects. Once I was driving down a gravel road in Iowa and noticed tettigoniid grasshoppers (mainly Orchelimum...
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kimberly huntzinger
kimberly_huntzinger@...
Feb 11, 2013 3:09 pm
I've been wondering about bumble bee kill along bike paths due to those pesky cyclists ;-) because I have noticed quite a few dead bumbles when I run those...
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Weber, Don
Don.Weber@...
Feb 11, 2013 4:45 pm
Sam, This recalls when I observed house sparrows in a parking lot in Gatlinburg Tennessee years ago, hopping up onto car radiators in back of their front...
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pollinator2001
Feb 12, 2013 12:08 am
... Fire ants will quickly dispose of dead insects in the South of the US. Dave Green, Ret. pollination contractor Coastal SC...
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Gordon.Hutchings@...
Feb 12, 2013 12:23 am
I've seen the early and evening crew of ravens cleaning up roadkill in many places in the north. The majority of specimens were odonata, bumble bees, beetles...
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Sam
sam_droege
Feb 12, 2013 7:59 pm
The February Bee The bumblebee crept out on the stone steps. No roses. Nothing to gather. Nothing but itself, the cold air, and the spring light. It rubbed its...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Feb 12, 2013 8:02 pm
... -- *Bees are Not Optional* *ÃÛ·äÊDz»¿ÉÑ¡ * On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Sam < sdroege@... > wrote: The February Bee The bumblebee...
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Liz Day
fraternobombus
Feb 13, 2013 5:58 am
... I have seen this too with a Mockingbird that had obviously learned to watch each car as it came in and that grabbed butterflies off my grill before I could...
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saraguitiprado
Feb 14, 2013 4:39 pm
Hi Everyone, I'm curious to see if anyone knows of any studies where the three way interaction between field margins, agricultural practices (i.e. chemicals,...
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Dave Hunter
dave@...
Feb 14, 2013 4:50 pm
Sara, there's a recently awarded USDA/SCRI grant under Rufus Isaac that is addressing this issue over the next 5 years. The study will produce economic...
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Brian Dykstra
beekeepbrian
Feb 14, 2013 6:45 pm
Hi Sara I am not sure what definition of "field margins" you are using. Off hand I can think of a number of relevant papers, which do not directly address...
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pollinator2001
Feb 14, 2013 11:50 pm
... Honey bees are an indicator of what happens, and wild bees would be similarly affected, likely quite a bit worse. And I've seen many a pile of dead bees...
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Michael Eckenfels
nativebeemon...
Feb 15, 2013 2:55 am
I'm curious if anyone has contrasted conventional agriculture with organic, pesticide-free practices in terms of bee density. Â Seems that data could serve as...
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pollinator2001
Feb 15, 2013 5:17 am
... Organic is not necessarily pesticide free. And some pesticides that are approved for organic use are toxic to bees. There's some gain by organic practices,...
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Brian Dykstra
beekeepbrian
Feb 15, 2013 7:40 am
Dear Dave, This is one paper of a few. Try googling with google scholar. Morandin, Lora A., and Mark L. Winston. 2005. WILD BEE ABUNDANCE AND SEED PRODUCTION...
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Kimball Clark
nativebeesdo...
Feb 15, 2013 2:47 pm
Michael, After dealing with Osmia lignaria since '08, surely their survival rate has some say in the health of their local habitat. I look at their affluence...
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Nicholas Stewart
nick.s2art
Feb 18, 2013 8:54 pm
I second this assertion. I asked for a similar thing couple years back, but I understand how busy Dr. Pickering, Sam and the DL team are! If anyone knows a...
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Brian Dykstra
beekeepbrian
Feb 19, 2013 6:38 pm
Dear All, I am searching for drawings or photographs of Hoplitis papaveris (Megachilidae), the upholsterer bee, which utilizes primarily Papaver petals in nest...
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pollinator2001
Feb 20, 2013 12:08 am
Fascinating article about some very unusual bees, stolen from the Bee List: ...
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Charles
icecilliate123
Feb 22, 2013 4:39 pm
Hi all, Scientific America, 2/21/13 online news date: "Bumble Bees Sense Electric fields on Flowers". This morning National Public Radio gave word of the...
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Cory Sheffield
cory.silas.sheffield@...
Feb 24, 2013 12:58 am
Hi all, Our new paper "Sheffield, C.S., A. Pindar, L. Packer, and P.G. Kevan. 2013. The potential of cleptoparasitic bees as indicator taxa for assessing bee...
