Hello everyone. We are studying bees in Israel and we have a key for the local bee genera. However, I am having problems at the ase of the tree: how do you...
Hi Gidi: Yes, go ahead and post some pictures, people are always interested in seeing bees from different locales. The bee/wasp thing is a bit tricky, in...
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Claudia Ratti
cmratti@...
Jul 19, 2009 11:51 am
Hi Gidi, Here is a site that has a section on "Is it a bee or not?" http://www.yorku.ca/bugsrus/BFoW/Images/Introduction/Introduction.html It's got images of...
Thank you both! I'll use your keys and if still necessary, I will post some pictures. Gidi...
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Elizabeth A Sellers
esellers@...
Jul 20, 2009 8:28 pm
Hi Folks, Apart from all of the other exciting things I saw this weekend, I'm wondering if I've managed to photograph (all-be-it somewhat blurry and not as...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esellers/tags/bombussp/ To me, it appears that: 13, 14 on Monarda are male perplexus. 9, 10, 14 on thistle are female X....
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Elizabeth A Sellers
esellers@...
Jul 21, 2009 9:05 pm
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/esellers/3709023916/> is indeed a video... I got tired of trying to capture a 'still' of what I thought was Bombus pensylvanicus...
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Eugene J. Scarpulla
ejscarp@...
Jul 23, 2009 3:39 am
Please forgive the request of an ornithologist turned entomologist. I know what to look for when purchasing binoculars and spotting scopes (Leica, Swarovski,...
Hi Gene, I can assist. I am also doing bee surveys with Sam. The set-up I've created over the past year is assembled from various components, but they seem to...
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barbara.abraham@...
Jul 23, 2009 2:08 pm
I would also like to include a good dissecting microscope in a grant proposal. The ones at NCTC (bee course) were very nice. Did anybody get their specs? ...
All: I have put together some potentially useful phenological charts for bees of the Mid-Atlantic area of North America (Maryland, Delaware, DC, Pennsylvania,...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Aug 5, 2009 2:06 am
Dear Professor Williams: Please send a copy of your paper, Williams, Paul, Tang, Ya, Yao, J. & Cameron, S. 2009. The bumblebees of Sichuan (Hymenoptera:...
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wayne_millington@...
Aug 5, 2009 9:58 am
I will be out of the office starting Mon 08/03/2009 and will not return until Mon 08/10/2009. I will respond to your message when I return....
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Vivian_NegronOrtiz@...
Aug 5, 2009 10:05 am
I will be out of the office starting 07/24/2009 and will not return until 08/06/2009....
All: Our lab has shifted from pinning all specimens to the following process: 1. Bees are washed, cleaned, and dried 2. Easy to identify specimens are...
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Peter Bernhardt
bernhap2@...
Aug 5, 2009 4:12 pm
... From: Paul Williams <porlw@...> Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:36 AM Subject: [beemonitoring] (unknown) To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com Dear Peter ...
All: John Pickering at the University of Georgia has taken the scanned version (Biodiversity Heritage Library, 2009) of the 3 volume Catalog of Hymenoptera in...
All: People who are just learning to net collect insects are often hesitant to plunge their hand into a net full bees and wasps. With time, most develop ways...
Handball gloves have worked well for me. Leather is thin enough so you can still handle bumble bees easily, but thick enough that I don't recall ever being...
In honey beekeeping, goat skin gloves give the best feel/dexterity, but are not 100% sting proof. Cowhide is usually sting proof, but very cumbersome. Tightish...
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Anita M Collins, Ph.D.
frozenbeedoc@...
Aug 11, 2009 1:17 am
hi all, Been away in Maine. Not too many bees, and most of them were in Acadia National Park. I've had a lot of experience with goatskin beekeeping gloves....
All: I could use your help to run a North American pilot test of an inexpensive trap for yellowjackets and hornets. If successful it might result in ...
Greetings: In my lab we are affixing bee wings to microscope slides for study. We are currently using entellan fixative to fix the wing to the slide and...
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Vivian_NegronOrtiz@...
Aug 15, 2009 10:04 pm
I will be out of the office starting 08/12/2009 and will not return until 08/17/2009....
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Eric Mader
eric@...
Aug 17, 2009 8:10 pm
JOB TITLE: Midwest Pollinator Outreach Coordinator BACKGROUND: The Xerces Society is an international, nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through...
All: Erika Tucker and I have put together a presentation of a pilot survey of bumblebees along roadsides that Erika ran this June/July. It is a possible model...
All: I was wondering whether Axestotrigona, Apotrigona and Meliplebeia are valid genera of bees or they are subgenera under genus Meliponula. Thanks...
Hello, There has been very little work on the systematics of the Afrotropical stingless bees (save some taxonomic works). Whether genus or subgenus depends on...
Hi all, I found a B. affinis worker at Pinery Provincial Park yesterday in Southern Ontario. It was 'resting' on Spotted Knapweed. Picture is attached. As far...
