Hello all. I am working with some ecologists at the U of MN who are doing a grand scale study looking at using established prairies as sources of biofuel. The...
Hi Bee Folks, Has anyone found a way to tell pollen from different Lupine species apart (once it is separated from the flower)? I will be looking at pollen...
Does anyone know of a video camera good enough to record visitation rates of moderately small bees (i.e., halictids)? I would want to use it on plants that...
All: At the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign meetings last week I sat on a committee to work on garden related topics. During that meeting we...
All: We have 2 scheduled bee identification workshops coming up one December 1-5 and the other February 9 - 13. We have made those dates available to everyone...
Hi everyone, I had a question I thought perhaps one or more of you could answer. Twice in the last year, I have been asked my colleagues about bees nesting in...
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...
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...
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...
Hi everybody My name is Raj Singh and I am graduate student.. we are conducting a green house experiment using both honey bees and bumblee bees (Bombus ...
  Hello, I hope this 'activates' my membership in: beemonitoring group?    charlie guevara NJ,US Hello, I hope this 'activates' my membership in:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
All: I have been talking with Wayne Esaias at NASA regarding non-Apis measures of bee phenology. One topic that I thought had traction that Wayne thought up...
Sam, I was at Harper's Ferry, WV a few weeks ago on August 9 and while I was walking in the area called Virginius Island, I noticed some (20-30) large (.75 -...
All: Many thanks for your comments on the proposal to hold meetings on Bee Inventory and Monitoring projects/programs in North America. The feedback was...
All: I received the email below. If anyone is interested in rearing out or looking at the biology of this invasive...its sounds like Carla would be glad to...
Sam did not receive my previous message on the list. Did anyone else receive it, and is anyone getting this one? Sorry for the wasted band width. Matt...
I am looking for information on how to re-hydrate pinned specimens. If you have tips on how to soften up bees once they have dried in order to spread mandibles...
An interesting new open-access journal, with content linked to ZooBank, GBIF, and others as described below. The current content includes a new record of...
All: I think the time is right to bring together scientists and administrators to talk about creating, expanding, and implementing a unified means of...
All: From a statistical point of view, for the purpose of detecting change (monitoring), surveys of the type like the ATBI, BioBlitz, and general collecting...
All: I come from a vertebrate population survey and monitoring background. So when embarking on my bee phase it took me a while to clue into the fact that...
All: John Morse passed on the following note about pronunciation of scientific names...I will get a copy of John's lecture and track down a copy of Triplehorn...
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...
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...
Pollinators are in trouble! They provide important services for agriculture and they help sustain native populations of plants and animals - including people....
