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 ...
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Wilson, Michael E
mwilso14
Jun 4, 2008 12:57 pm
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...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jun 4, 2008 1:13 pm
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...
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nancy lee adamson
anancylee
Jun 4, 2008 4:24 pm
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...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Jun 4, 2008 6:30 pm
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 ...
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Liz Day
fervidobombus
Jun 4, 2008 7:12 pm
... 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...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jun 4, 2008 7:24 pm
Jack: I agree, in general...the soapy water collection does destroy all pollen and that has been a valuable contribution to bee natural history and thus ...
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T'ai Roulston
thr8z@...
Jun 5, 2008 1:36 am
... Sam: A lot of people are repeating statements similar to this, casually and in submitted manuscripts. Certainly, any standardized collecting is more...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jun 5, 2008 12:26 pm
T'ai: True, I am generalizing based on experience rather than on data. Other than some rather small references in papers to differences in observers in ...
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T'ai Roulston
thr8z@...
Jun 5, 2008 1:01 pm
Sam: Your basic design is reasonable and it would be great to have someone do something similar sometime. An hour of netting is definitely not sufficient and...
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Jerry_Freilich@...
jerryfreilich
Jun 5, 2008 3:44 pm
I've been following this thread with some interest. I've always felt sympathy for E.O Wilson who turned to ants because of a vision problem resulting from an...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jun 5, 2008 5:21 pm
Jerry: Very interesting comparison. There is quite a large literature on inter-observer differences now in bird counts, particularly the common point count...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Jun 5, 2008 6:22 pm
Sam et al. RE washing pollen off of soapy water collected bees. It takes some concerted efforts to shake up these bees in soapy water for washing off the...
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OOWONBS@...
billsf9c
Jun 6, 2008 3:18 pm
Anita, Is this valid for bees that have been in soapy water "all day," bounced around in a shirt pocket, or just those... "under an hour?" Also, if my...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Jun 6, 2008 6:29 pm
BillSF9c et al., Your question: Is this valid for bees that have been in soapy water "all day," bounced around in a shirt pocket, or just those... "under an...
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David_r_smith@...
Jun 9, 2008 4:01 pm
After reading about the concern regarding pollen loss when bees are collected and transported, I have to ask; Are ther standardized methods for collecting...
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nancy lee adamson
anancylee
Jun 10, 2008 2:19 pm
Hi, Michael, I would like to hear more details about the methods you are using. I didn't hear back much since I wrote about Winfree's approach. I am...
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martinholdrege
Jun 11, 2008 1:04 am
Sam and others: I am helping with a small native bee research project in upstate New York focusing on farms. I would like to collect data on flowering plant...
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Wilson, Michael E
mwilso14
Jun 11, 2008 3:41 pm
Nancy, I had missed your previous ‘methods’ email, but I found it on the list. I have been out of town for a class, but am back now. My direct email is...
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Wilson, Michael E
mwilso14
Jun 11, 2008 3:48 pm
I forgot to mention I'll have bee bowls in the cucurbit plantings, but not at blueberry farms due to distances and time....
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Asif Sajjad
asifbinsajjad
Jun 15, 2008 8:30 am
Hi all! I am PhD student at B Z Univresity Pakistan. I need any source of identification key for *Megachile mystaceana *. Thaks Asif Sajjad www.bzu.edu.pk...
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tuelljul
Jun 18, 2008 2:11 pm
I'm not sure if anyone knows the answers to some of these questions, but this inquiry was sent to me by someone here in Michigan this past week and I thought...
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Neal Williams
nwilliam@...
Jun 18, 2008 3:08 pm
Osmia lignaria has two subspecies an eastern O. lignaria lignaria and a western O. lignaria propinqua. The split is reported as a 100th meridian pattern. In...
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scan_editor_brg@...
Jun 18, 2008 4:43 pm
ScienceDaily (Jun. 17, 2008) — Scientists have discovered that there are more bee species than previously thought. In the first global accounting of bee...
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PDA Bee Program
honeybeewings@...
Jun 19, 2008 10:50 am
Some colleagues at Penn State University Fruit Research and Extension have checked into using western-raised O. lignaria. They were told that ...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Jun 24, 2008 5:48 pm
Folks- we are working with developmental tempos and diapause, comparing Osmia lignaria populations drawn from 3 far-flung, different western US climatic...
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OOWONBS@...
billsf9c
Jun 25, 2008 8:49 pm
... regions that lacked them before. Witness the spread of tracheal mites and Varroa mites by beekeepers around the US. ... USDA-ARS Bee Biology and...
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michael_horne@...
Jun 25, 2008 10:02 pm
I will be out of the office starting 06/24/2008 and will not return until 07/07/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. If emergency, see ...
