I will be out of the office starting 09/01/2008 and will not return until 09/15/2008. I will respond to your message when I return....
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Sep 2, 2008 4:36 pm
Sam- I too rear trap nests through to adulthood, then take one of the early-emerging males to sacrifice for the ID, leaving me with the other males and all the...
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Eric Mader
eric@...
Sep 2, 2008 7:32 pm
Jim, Your comments got me thinking… How widespread is parsivoltinism among megachilids? For those of us doing this kind of trap nesting, is there any easy ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 23, 2008 10:06 pm
All: A recent paper by Claudio Sedivy et al. PATTERNS OF HOST-PLANT CHOICE IN BEES OF THE GENUS CHELOSTOMA: THE CONSTRAINT HYPOTHESIS OF HOST-RANGE EVOLUTION...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Sep 23, 2008 11:20 pm
Sam- regarding that adventive Chelostoma, there is the following article: Eickwort, G. C. 1980. Two European species of Chelostoma established in New York...
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Joe Metzger
jmetzger50
Sep 24, 2008 9:21 am
Sam, Although widely planted (at least formerly), there aren't any native Mock Oranges in Maryland, but I checked a couple of my flora and found they are a...
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Riddle,T Charles
tcri@...
Sep 24, 2008 1:30 pm
All, I was pushing some small hardwood brush piles in Southwest Ga. and found what I believe to be small aggregation(<25 bees) of Habropoda that was in the...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Sep 24, 2008 2:23 pm
Charlie- the only published research on the nesting biology of Habropoda laboriosa is: Cane, J. H. 1994. Nesting biology and mating behavior of the ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 24, 2008 3:48 pm
Thanks Jim: I do have that paper and it doesn't discuss the C. philadelphi in it (It was considered in the genus Prochelostoma at that point). Interesting to...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Sep 24, 2008 4:41 pm
Sam- yes, that's a useful observation about Chelostoma philadelphi not making it west in the US where native likely floral hosts occur. Possibly it is because...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 24, 2008 5:39 pm
Jim: I like your thinking.... How about this: I found Robertson's article on Heterotropic Bees (Ecology 6: 412-436) in which he states under a paragraph...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Sep 24, 2008 6:14 pm
Sam: Your speculation that Chelostoma philadelphi is introduced is intriguing. However, China -Eastern North America is a classic pattern for Miocene plant...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 24, 2008 9:01 pm
Jack: That sounds resonable, but wouldn't you expect there to be several species in that subgenus in North America, not just one? Particularly since the split...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Sep 24, 2008 9:26 pm
Sam: Failure to speciate (or extinction rate = speciation rate) is reasonable for relicts. Also, in E. Asia - North American disjuncts, multiple...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Sep 24, 2008 9:48 pm
Jack: You have me convinced. I am swinging back to it not be an introduced species,,,meerly a very intriguing one that (as usual) would very interesting to...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
Sep 24, 2008 11:45 pm
Sam and Jack: The diagnostic features of Chelostoma lamellum is illustrated in Wu's recent book on Chinese Megachilidae along with another related species, C. ...
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Kim McFarland
megachilidae@...
Sep 25, 2008 2:19 pm
I am looking for tips on collecting the pollen loads from the non-corbiculate bee Habropoda miserabilis for identification of pollen sources. It appears that...
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Matthew Sarver
mjsarver@...
Sep 25, 2008 2:29 pm
Kim - Acetolysis and other pollen study and collection techniques are described in detail (with references) in: Kearns, C.A. and Inouye, D.W. 1993. Techniques...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Sep 25, 2008 3:18 pm
Kim: I've collected scopal pollen from foraging Andrena by simply removing part of the scopal load with a microspatula and scraping into foil "envelopes" I'd...
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Suzanne Koptur
kopturs@...
Sep 26, 2008 4:00 pm
Howdy all, Practical Pollination Biology (A. Dafni, P.G. Kevan, and B.C. Husband. 2005. Enviroquest, Ltd. Cambridge, Ontario, Canada) is a very good resource...
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Charles Guevara
icecilliate123
Oct 4, 2008 5:17 pm
  Hello, I hope this 'activates' my membership in: beemonitoring group?    charlie guevara NJ,US Hello, I hope this 'activates' my membership in:...
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icecilliate123
Oct 4, 2008 5:45 pm
- Hello Raj, I suggest your project look at using specimens of wild pepermint. I reside NY/NJ border highlands, Ramapo Mts near Hudson River (just...
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Vivian_NegronOrtiz@...
Oct 4, 2008 10:02 pm
I will be out of the office starting 10/04/2008 and will not return until 10/13/2008. I will respond to your message when I return....
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Joe Metzger
jmetzger50
Oct 5, 2008 6:04 am
Charlie (and Raj), I'm confused by your suggestion of wild peppermint. In MD, I rarely see any member of the mint family in bloom at this time of year. Also...
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Liz Day
fervidobombus
Oct 5, 2008 7:04 am
... The peppermint I'm familiar with (a garden plant; don't know its origin) does put out runners that snake out in all directions over the ground. The...
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Charles Guevara
icecilliate123
Oct 5, 2008 1:17 pm
  Hello Liz, All our wetlands with running water here in NY/NJ 'highlands' (as Harriman Tate Park,NY typifies)...have rather common asseblages of...
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icecilliate123
Oct 5, 2008 2:29 pm
Hello Joe Metzger, hello Liz Day...thanks Joe for 'heads up' on wildpepermint being an exotic/introduced plant in NY/NJ, the bees here love(leave the fennel...
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scan_editor_brg@...
Oct 8, 2008 11:37 pm
Hey Everyone, As I mentioned in the last newsletter, we have been invited to visit the Bishop Gravatt Center near Aiken, SC, to help them identify plant...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Oct 20, 2008 1:49 pm
All: As part of a series of techniques papers on bee bowls/pan trapping for bees I have tried to put together a bibliography and summary of all published...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Oct 20, 2008 3:08 pm
Sam- I've attached a file with the extra refs that I have from a much larger European (esp Polish) literature that has used pan trapping for decades, plus...
