The "other names" are found on species pages in smaller font under the currently valid species name and on the genus pages in black font following the blue...
All: This just came across another listserv and I thought it would be useful for many of you... Note that this was published in 1979 and names should be...
Sam: Users of John's List should be aware that the "Other Names" category is not a synonymic list but rather a species level list of all names applied to a ...
Thanks Jack: Good point I was a little to quick on my "fix" for the Catalog. One could use the list of names of bees on the individual species DL guides as ...
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scan_editor_brg@...
May 6, 2008 2:46 pm
Sam, Thanks, but I can't compile that information into the phenological charts. Thanks for the offer, though. ben -- Ben Gregory, Secretary South Carolina...
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Brent_Steury@...
May 19, 2008 10:31 am
I will be out of the office starting 04/28/2008 and will not return until 06/02/2008. In case of emergencies call 703-289-2542...
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keith_langdon@...
May 20, 2008 5:31 am
I will be out of the office starting 05/19/2008 and will not return until 05/27/2008. Contact Acting I&M Coordinator Becky Nichols at 865-436-1702 for ...
Cool ! THIS is what I call BEE Monitoring. We just need to outfit the rest of the bees now. BillSF9c ... until 06/02/2008. ... until 05/27/2008....
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Joe Franke
consed@...
May 28, 2008 4:18 am
I have a new copy of the 2nd edition hardback Bees of the World for sale for $75...proceeds go towards a neotropical pollinator project. Send messages directly...
Hello everyone, I have a question about identifying specimens from pan traps. I collected quite a few insects this spring in pans filled with mildly soapy...
I am monitoring bees on various crops, taking visitation counts. On blueberries, after peak flowering, carpenter bees cut holes into the flowers and rob...
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Wyatt Mangum
wmangum@...
May 30, 2008 1:26 pm
Dear Nancy, Dr. Delaplane has work with this. His contact address is Dr. Keith S. Delaplane Professor of Entomology 463C Biological Sciences Building ...
Hi Nancy, sounds like we are doing the same thing. Dr. Sampson also has an article on this. Sampson, B. J., Kanka, R. G., Stringer, S. J. (2004). Nectar...
Hi, Michael, Thank you very much!! I sent separate thanks to Dr. Mangum, but will reply to your questions to the whole group. I am not sure that robbing only...
Quote "Did you inquire earlier about trap nests? Have you incorporated that into your project?" Yes we did, but no use as of yet. My lab partner found another...
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Hendrix, Stephen D
stephen-hendrix@...
May 30, 2008 3:52 pm
I've been conducting some trap nest experiments around Iowa City (east-central IA) for the past two summers. We've tried out wood blocks with holes drilled...
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Riddle,T Charles
tcri@...
May 30, 2008 4:03 pm
I have two of the earliest highbush licensed from the University of Florida. In these varieties in the panhandle of Florida I have noticed the robbing occur...
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Mark Kraemer
mkraemer@...
May 30, 2008 4:13 pm
Michael, Trap nests often attract local Osmia bees if placed out early in year, before tree bloom, and in a good location. If nest shelters are left up into...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
May 30, 2008 4:34 pm
Nancy- from my dozen or so years with rabbiteye blueberry pollination and pollinators, it was clear that Xylocopa virginica was only visiting the flowers to...
Nancy - I don't know about blueberries in particular, but in some species nectar robbers can effect pollination. See this paper: Maloof, J. E. and D. W....
Michael and other potential collaborators, I think it would be wonderful if we could try to standardize a methodology, but this is just my second summer, and I...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Jun 3, 2008 1:45 am
Dear Nancy, Bob Danka, at the ARS honey bee lab in Baton Rouge, LA did a bunch of work on rabbit-eye blueberry pollination some years ago. His e-mail is ...
I'm 95% sure that I saw 3 O. lignaria on blueberry flowers this spring. I didn't collect them so cant say%100. I'll be sure and try to collect any I see next ...
Jim or others. Can you make sure what I'm calling a legitamite pollinator visitor on blueberry is correct? When the bee enters through the end of the flower to...
All: This past week I went on a collecting trip and realized that my cyanide jar was near to expiring. Since I usually dump specimens into alcohol or wash all...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Jun 4, 2008 4:21 pm
Michael- I agree with your interpretation of behaviors and positioning on flowers that constitutes robbing or not. I wouldn't think you'd have Xylocopa micans...
Thank you, Anita. Nancy ... -- Nancy Adamson Graduate Student in Entomology at Virginia Tech tel: 540-231-6498...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Jun 4, 2008 5:35 pm
Hey Sam, I figured that out last summer (soap in collecting jars). Forgot to tell you. Worked well for me. I used a small jelly canning jar. Easy to carry...
Sam: I understand the utility of pan traps and the like for certain types of surveys, but I regret the generation of so many specimens with no biological ...
... I would have to agree with this, only from the point of view of identifying bumblebees. Of course, they can be washed, and apparently can sometimes be...
