Greetings all! I am writing to ask if anyone knows of sources offering funding for bee work anywhere in the world. I am really hoping to do bee ID and/or...
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Liz Day
fervidobombus
Apr 6, 2007 3:32 am
... prairiebioticresearch@... This group does small grants for research on prairies, and they often fund bee work. However, the deadline for this...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Apr 6, 2007 7:02 pm
All: In the East we can get quite a slug of Acmaeodera buprestid beetles in our bowls in the spring. With the help of Chuck Bellamy and Norm Woodley I have...
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Karen Wetherill
karen@...
Apr 6, 2007 10:07 pm
I get a few, but not high numbers. I pin most of them up when I find them. If anyone is interested in them, they can have them. I would appreciate...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 1, 2007 3:01 pm
All: As part of a course on Bee Identification that Rob Jean and I taught a few weeks ago, I developed a summary of the eastern genera of bees that may be ...
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Dan Kjar
kjard_us
May 1, 2007 3:17 pm
Fantastic Sam, I will try it on my field biology students in the coming weeks. We are bee bowling around Ithaca this month. Dan ... a few ... may be ... ...
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beemonitoring@yahoogr...
May 2, 2007 2:34 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the beemonitoring group. File : /Genera...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 2, 2007 4:22 pm
All: John Ascher and I will be teaching a course on Native Bees in June this year in Connecticut. While only 2 days long we hope to give participants an...
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Molly Rightmyer
molly_rightmyer
May 3, 2007 7:40 pm
Hi Sam, Just wanted to pass on the good news that I have received a 2 year postdoc at the Smithsonian to work on Nomada! I would love to strategize with you...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 7, 2007 8:46 pm
For those interested: Attached is a summary and list of bees collected on Assateague Island National Park, in September of 2006. sam Sam Droege...
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Richard Orr
odonata457@...
May 13, 2007 3:09 pm
Hi everyone, Earlier this month (May 6th) I noticed a queen Bombus impatiens flying fast in a zigzag fashion over an open field. Hot on her heals (approximate...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
May 13, 2007 7:24 pm
Conopid flies are well studied as parasites of some European bumble bees (several papers by Schmid-Hempel), but I don't think I know of any published studies...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
May 13, 2007 11:27 pm
Sarcophagid flies (which may key to Tachinidae) are known to parasitize Bombus nests (google Bombus and Sarcophagidae). The sarcophagids that attack solitary ...
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Richard Orr
odonata457@...
May 14, 2007 2:47 am
Jeff, Thanks, for trying to hunt down a name for my fly. Much appreciated. I pretty much went the same web route as you did when I first collected the fly --...
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Leo Shapiro
lshapiro@...
May 14, 2007 12:09 pm
Hi Richard, Your best chance of getting a name for your fly is to e-mail Norm Woodley at the USDA Systematic Entomology Lab/Smithsonian ...
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kimberly huntzinger
kimberly_huntzinger@...
May 14, 2007 4:34 pm
Just thought I would pass along this job posting to those who may be interested. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone else you may think might be...
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leifrichardson
May 14, 2007 7:16 pm
Richard, I was watching a nesting aggregation of Colletes (inequalis is the species, I think) this morning, and spotted a small fly hanging around. The bees...
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Richard Orr
odonata457@...
May 15, 2007 9:06 pm
Leo and the beemonitoring group, Norm Woodley identified the fly as a Tachnid belonging to the genus Gonia. Norm went on to state that the genus has not...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 17, 2007 1:47 pm
All: I am having some trepidations about 3 species of recently introduced bees whose populations appear to be skyrocketing. Osmia cornifrons Osmia taurus ...
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T'ai Roulston
thr8z@...
May 17, 2007 2:45 pm
Sam et al.: I concur with the skyrocketing nature of Osmia cornifrons/taurus. I pulled 7 O. taurus off the porch screen here at my field station in the...
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Neal Williams
nwilliam@...
May 17, 2007 3:04 pm
Sam et al. I believe that we are seeing them here in Philadelphia region too. I have two reports from people of large number of bees in rafter area of ...
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John S. Ascher
limon_cocha
May 17, 2007 3:52 pm
Sam, T'ai et al., Note the following passage pertaining to Osmia cornifrons from Giles and Ascher, 2006:218, J. Hym. Res. 15(2), where this species is...
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Matthias Buck
inbiomyia
May 18, 2007 1:19 pm
Hi Sam and others, Thanks for the interesting postings on three species of introduced bees. I should watch out for them here in Ontario because many of the...
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frozenbeedoc@...
May 18, 2007 6:46 pm
Sam, Interesting information on the 3 new species around D.C. We'll keep an eye out for them in PA for you as well. Dan's got about 10 transect samples, and ...
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bikerguy1934
May 20, 2007 2:47 pm
Handsome and Cool Bikers looking for fun! Chat with them here: http://coolbiker0189.googlepages.com/bikerboyz.htm...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 21, 2007 2:32 pm
Sorry All: I am supposed to approve all memberships so not sure how that one slipped though. I will keep monitoring the situation. sam Sam Droege...
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Jerry_Freilich@...
jerryfreilich
May 21, 2007 2:35 pm
These postings on the "following" flies are all very interesting, but I'm surprised that the concept is generating the sort of novelty it is. In the world of...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 21, 2007 6:13 pm
Hi Anita: Glad things are going so well...it will be very intersting to see what happens once we look at the specimens. I seem to have left my calendar at...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
May 21, 2007 7:47 pm
Matt: Good suggestion... Osmia taurus and O. cornifrons appear nearly identical, particularly the males. The technical separations are listed below. In...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Jun 8, 2007 12:59 pm
All: I am just back from a marathon collecting trip to South Carolina and Florida. During that time I put out about 1400 bee bowls and came up with several...
