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...
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Joan Milam
joan_milam
Feb 26, 2013 4:32 pm
Identification of Northeastern Bee SpeciesWorkshop Taught by Dr. John Ascher  Course Dates: March 22-24, 2013 Course Location: University of Massachusetts...
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Brian Dykstra
beekeepbrian
Feb 27, 2013 8:32 pm
Dear all at the Bee Monitoring group, I am interested in literature (scientific papers or otherwise) about the relationship between bumble bees and mice with...
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Matthew Shepherd
matthew.shep...
Mar 11, 2013 1:28 pm
I'm just passing along this information. If you have questions, please visit the website below or contact one of the two NPS staff. Thanks. Matthew ...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Mar 11, 2013 2:41 pm
All: It is spring and serious bee research is beginning. Many of you have discovered small secrets that help make your work flow smoother. But what good are...
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Riddle,T Charles
tcri@...
Mar 11, 2013 3:09 pm
We are wanting to run traps in certified organic plots. Seems no glycols or alcohols are OMRI certified. Does anyone have a good alternative. Safer's soap? T....
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Smith, David
David_r_smith@...
Mar 11, 2013 3:19 pm
To go along with Sam's list: if you use whirlpaks to keep samples in from pan trap arrays, pre-label them first before going in the field, it'll make running ...
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jason graham
jgrahambeesn...
Mar 11, 2013 3:35 pm
Happy Spring Everyone! Our lab has come up with a pretty good method for non-destructive trap-nesting which we detail on our citizen science web page at...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Mar 11, 2013 4:32 pm
... Two (or all three) of the problems above are avoidable concerns; pieces of paper that have been written on with pencil are the best possible whirlpak...
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John Mola
johnmmola@...
Mar 11, 2013 6:09 pm
If you're just looking to use pan traps, then yes, you can just fill a gallon jug with water and a dash of soap (not citrus scented). The bees will get stuck...
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Brian Dykstra
beekeepbrian
Mar 11, 2013 8:01 pm
Dear all beemonitors, I am seeking free-use, copyright free images of bees and other common garden insects. I am open to suggestions of websites/online...
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Rykken, Jessica
jrykken@...
Mar 11, 2013 8:20 pm
You can used the advanced search option on Flickr to restrict your search to images with a Creative Commons license that also allows derivative works (so you...
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Pehling, David J
pehling@...
Mar 11, 2013 8:28 pm
I have use Wikimedia Commons in the past.... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Cheers, Dave.... ============================== Dave Pehling WSU...
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John Mola
johnmmola@...
Mar 11, 2013 8:43 pm
Ditto on using Flickr. I think it's the best source by far! ... -- John Mola JohnMMola@... Check out my research project at RocketHub! ...
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Brian Dykstra
beekeepbrian
Mar 11, 2013 8:54 pm
Thanks Jessica! I will try your suggestions. I am also finding that the ARS Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars.usda.gov has an image search, and...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Mar 12, 2013 5:10 pm
Ah, what joy the richness of Dialictus brings...below is a little couplet that takes Jason Gibb's notion of the squared off clypeus in his key and extends is...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Mar 14, 2013 3:34 pm
Dear Colleagues: The Bernhardt/Meier laboratory is modernizing. We finally digitized the Zeiss epifluorescence microscope. We have ordered a new STEMI...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Mar 15, 2013 4:49 pm
All: If anyone has any stylopized bees or wasps they would like to send to Jakub Straka in the Czech Republic for his taxonomic work but don't want to pay for...
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jason graham
jgrahambeesn...
Mar 15, 2013 7:03 pm
Hello all, I'm conducting literature searches on red-listed/threatened/endangered/extinct bees and wasps; managed bees and wasps; and non-native bees and...
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jason graham
jgrahambeesn...
Mar 16, 2013 4:57 pm
Hi Matthew, Thanks for the link, comparing The Xerces Society Red List to everything else that I've found so far, it still seems to be the most comprehensive...
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Droege, Sam
sam_droege
Mar 19, 2013 1:50 pm
All: It is time for my annual cleaning of my database. Part of that cleaning requires decided what to do about specimens that are not or only partially ...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Mar 19, 2013 2:04 pm
Would someone recommend a review, or experimental studies, comparing the foraging behavior of large bees (Apis, Anthophora, Bombus, Xylocopa) under different...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Mar 19, 2013 2:13 pm
Brown's peony (Paeonia brownii) is an increasingly rare wildflower of northwestern America. It is one of only two peony species native to North America and...
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david almquist
bugalmquist
Mar 19, 2013 2:15 pm
Personally I like short, intuitive, unambiguous and no punctuation whenever possible. 1. Leaving the species column blank might leave some ambiguity as to...
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Dennis E Johnson
dermjohn97
Mar 19, 2013 2:29 pm
Sam, I use your e.g.'s for the first four and have not had occasion for number 5. I also add after the species (F) or (M) to identify sex. Denny Johnson ... ...
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adibble2@...
Mar 19, 2013 3:04 pm
Hi Sam, Big snow here, bees not out yet. The Handy Bee Manual might include a brief note about WHY keep undets. I can think of a few reasons -- you probably...
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Nicholas Stewart
nick.s2art
Mar 19, 2013 3:04 pm
GREAT TOPIC Sam! For (1), I leave 'Species' column blank until the specimen is either determined, or not - in which case its stored in my "to do with Sam at...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Mar 19, 2013 3:20 pm
Sam et al. I 'm not aware of any universal conventions for dealing with ambiguous taxa but I use the following: 1. Â Megachile sp. (or Megachile...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Mar 19, 2013 3:33 pm
Are you looking for a site in which you can do pollination studies? This includes experimental studies requiring you to leave bags on flowers of entire plants...
