All: Below is the version of the alien and introduced bees list that I plan to incorporate into the handy bee manual. Its about the same as the last time it...
1. I was wondering if anoyone has worked with bowl traps colored pink or violet, and if so, what were the results. A substantial fraction of flowering species,...
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Robert-and-Jane Whita...
rj.whitaker@...
Jul 3, 2008 12:41 pm
Gidi, I am using florescent Pink and florescent orange as well as Fl yellow, F lblue, and white. I am collecting bees in all colors but fewer in the orange....
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Karen Wetherill
karen@...
Jul 3, 2008 3:24 pm
I use funnel traps, not bowl traps and I use Krylon flourescent yellow and Krylon flourescent blue. I get very significant differences in taxon in the two...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Jul 3, 2008 5:50 pm
Sam- regarding Osmia cornifrons, I gather that some fruit growers are using it and propagating it in Michigan, and Karen Strickler stumbled into them among...
Jim: Would it be safe to say: Osmia cornifrons 1960. Eastern China, Korea, and Japan. Introduced to pollinate tree fruit crops. Feral populations are...
Yes, I use lavender, purple, light pink and shocking pink, regularly and get stronger results in the purples than the other colors, I have kept counts on the...
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Alicia Basilio
apis1b@...
Jul 7, 2008 5:20 pm
Hi Gidi, I use small pan traps blue, white, red and yellow simultaneously,  filled with water, detergent and a little of sugar. I cached more bees in...
Hi All: Sam Droege and I are heading up a pilot survey of the Megachilids coming to Centaurea sp. in Eastern PA (around Lehigh Gap) and Western NJ. We are...
As many of you will recall this was inspired by the recent recapture of Lithurgus chrysurus in the region... an invasive, wood drilling bee thought to have...
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Griswold, Terry
terry.griswold@...
Jul 8, 2008 2:20 pm
Rick & Sam, John Barthell is conducting a study comparing bee visitation at Centaurea in its native range to bees in western NA where it is invasive. Though...
Greetings Everyone: The latest version of the handy bee manual is available at: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/Standard%20Files both WORD and...
Hi Sam, Are you in your office Thurs or Fri this week? --Deana...
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Ruggiero, Michael
RUGGIERM@...
Jul 10, 2008 4:05 pm
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the completion of the World Bee Checklist. This has been an extraordinary effort on the part of many people for ...
All: Yesterday I went to look for L. chrysurus populations in NJ. Went to where it was first discovered in Phillipsburg and found a good patch of knapweed...
I will be out of the office starting 07/07/2008 and will not return until 07/14/2008. I will answer my mail as soon as I can when I return....
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PDA Bee Program
honeybeewings@...
Jul 13, 2008 2:47 am
Hi all: I visited Lehigh Gap Nature Center (PA) on Thursday and found about a half dozen males and a couple of female Lithurgus chrysurus on site (same ...
I thought you might like to see this photograph. http://www.marylandinsects.com/images/vibrans-halictid.JPG I was photographing a male Great Blue Skimmer...
I'm not sure if these pictures will work, but it's worth a try. I am a former intern of Sam Droege's, and I am currently an education major at UMD. This...
Hello Bee Listers, I'm interested in hearing about any recent collections of Bombus terricola in the northeast. Despite this bee's population crash, I still...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Jul 16, 2008 2:12 am
Leif, I've gotten a number of Bombus in the Pocono Mts of northeastern PA. You'll have to wait awhile until I get them ID'd. But I'll let you know if I find ...
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Eric Mader
eric@...
Jul 18, 2008 5:04 am
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: XERCES SOCIETY CALIFORNIA POLLINATOR OUTREACH COORDINATOR JOB TITLE: California Pollinator Outreach Coordinator BACKGROUND: The Xerces...
I will be out of the office starting 07/17/2008 and will not return until 08/06/2008. I will answer my mail as soon as I can when I return. If there is...
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scan_editor_brg@...
Jul 21, 2008 3:54 pm
FLORIDA & RED BLUFF BAYS BERKELEY COUNTY, SC JULY 26, 2008 – 10:30 AM (Johnny Hardaway & Wayne Grooms) On a previous trip to Florida Bay I heard Patrick...
Anita, Thank you for your reply. I collected B. terricola at yet another site this week! I look forward to hearing about your bees once you've identified them....
Pollinators are in trouble! They provide important services for agriculture and they help sustain native populations of plants and animals - including people....
Hi Fellow Bee-People: I wanted to send out an update on our progress with the Lithurgus chrysurus pilot survey in Eastern PA and Western NJ. To date, we have...
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frozenbeedoc@...
Aug 13, 2008 5:25 pm
Rick, I can add negative results from 4 sites in Berks County and one in Pike County. The Berks County blooms were also near railroad lines, but the one in...
All: Below is an expanded file that was created a number of years ago as an aid in scientific name pronunciation. It was meant to reflect what was more or less...
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Jamese_Hemsley@...
Aug 14, 2008 9:18 pm
Hey. Sam, Is there a Pronunciation Guide that don't have all the names crossed out as viewed on your attachment or is this something that is retrievable from...
