Hi, Have spent hours taking pictures of bees after finding three pictures of one bee the day before showed that it has stripes (yellow and brown) on its...
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Matthias Buck
buckmb@...
Nov 2, 2009 4:57 pm
For those of you working on bees taxonomically I would like to bring to your attention the bee collection at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. It might be...
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Vivian_NegronOrtiz@...
Nov 2, 2009 5:03 pm
I will be out of the office starting 11/02/2009 and will not return until 11/09/2009....
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Sandra_Lary@...
Nov 2, 2009 5:07 pm
I will be out of the office starting 11/02/2009 and will not return until 11/09/2009. I will respond to your message when I return....
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hennetjie
kyckly
Nov 3, 2009 6:18 am
Hi Mr Sam & all, I beg all your pardons for being a klutz and wasting your time. Thank you for putting me straight. Here is my (non-)bee picture of a Syrphid...
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hennetjie
kyckly
Nov 3, 2009 6:39 am
Pardon - forgot to say it was Sam's clue and Doug Yanega's identification that put me right. Was just going to send a picture when they stopped me in my...
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Liz Day
fervidobombus
Nov 3, 2009 7:49 am
You're not the only one; many collections of "bumblebees" contain robber flies. Liz D. Indianapolis...
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hennetjie
kyckly
Nov 3, 2009 3:54 pm
Thank you, Liz and all, I think now I know better what to watch out for in future, yes. Big fly eyes and fatter bodies - from afar, that is. Yes too to Rob:...
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Nov 3, 2009 4:54 pm
do not feel so bad the grade 6 Canadian Math book of my son have a photograph of a syrphid and authors of the book call it "bee" and wrote a small text about...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Nov 3, 2009 6:02 pm
Check out the cover photo of the Facts on File reprint of O'Toole and Raw's "Bees of the World" for further adventures with fake bees. best Jack John L. Neff ...
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Cane, Jim
Jim.Cane@...
Nov 3, 2009 11:43 pm
Folks- the discussion below suggests to me that guttation drops may very well contain lethal amounts of Imidachloprid for bees, but it may not be responsible...
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Dave Green
pollinator2001
Nov 4, 2009 1:31 pm
I always assumed the bees were collecting dew, so this has been important news to me. Also when farmers are cutting greenchop to feed cows in mid-summer, when...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 5, 2009 11:47 am
All: In the revisions, books, and keys relating to bees the term "metallic"; is often used as a descriptor for the integument (skin) of bees. Metallic can be...
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barbara.abraham@...
Nov 5, 2009 1:23 pm
Sam, Personally I have never had any trouble telling "metallic"; from "non-metallic" in general, but I have not used the keys excessively yet for bees. My only...
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Wedge_Watkins@...
Nov 5, 2009 2:02 pm
Since I would have to look up terms like tessellated, imbricate and rugose, I prefer shiny metallic or dull metallic. Wedge Watkins Refuge Biologist Big Muddy...
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Crumbling.Deana@...
dcrumbling
Nov 5, 2009 2:20 pm
Perhaps we just need better explanations of terms such as those, along with easily accessible, good pictures of the features. Deana Crumbling, M.S. ...
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Wilson, Michael E
mwilso14
Nov 5, 2009 6:46 pm
As a novice, I vote for dividing metallic into more detailed descriptions as Sam suggests. Metallic as used in the guides now is extremely broad and becomes...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Nov 5, 2009 7:00 pm
... Don't second-guess. The term is useful, and if students are having trouble with it, then examples should do the trick. The distinction is pretty much the...
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Anita M Collins, Ph.D.
frozenbeedoc@...
Nov 5, 2009 8:04 pm
Sam, I tend to agree with Barb, that the simpler the terms the better. However, applying metllic to a group, when some are not clearly so, is probably not a...
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Matthias Buck
buckmb@...
Nov 5, 2009 8:41 pm
Hi Sam, I never found a problem with the term metallic. It seems pretty intuitive to me. I would rather keep it simple. More detailed explanations could be...
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Julio A. Genaro
polimita@...
Nov 5, 2009 10:06 pm
I AGREED WITH MATTHIAS. UNTIL I KNOW FOR US, PEOPLE DESCRIBING NEW BEE SPECIES, WRITTING KEYS OF REDESCRIBING OTHER, IT IS INTUITIVE!!! CHEERS JULIO Hi Sam, I...
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Carla Essenberg
cesse001@...
Nov 5, 2009 10:59 pm
Hello All, I am planning a moderately large-scale pollination study using a highly abundant composite, the tarweed Holocarpha virgata (a grassland species ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 6, 2009 2:07 pm
OPEN POSITION Collection/Research Support Position for Bee Collection American Museum of Natural History The museum is looking for a person with at minimum a...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Nov 7, 2009 1:24 pm
Sam: Â I have no problem with the term "metallic";. Â As with some others, it seems fairly intutitive to me and I have no problem with it in keys or...
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Anita M Collins, Ph.D.
frozenbeedoc@...
Nov 7, 2009 1:24 pm
Sam, I tend to agree with Barb, that the simpler the terms the better. However, applying metllic to a group, when some are not clearly so, is probably not a...
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Robert Jean
beeman_4602
Nov 9, 2009 3:21 pm
Sam, I too agree we should leave the term metallic. I t is very intuitive and useful to me and for identification. Having taught several bee ID courses with...
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Estuardo Solorzano
esolorzano@...
Nov 9, 2009 11:36 pm
... Dear All, I will be greatly pleased someone could let me know which congress or events regarding Bees and Pollinators will take place from now until the ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 10, 2009 12:55 pm
All: I have enjoyed both the on and off list discussions of the use of the term "metallic"; and thank everyone for responding. There seems to be a partial ...
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barbara.abraham@...
Nov 10, 2009 3:14 pm
Sam, Upon pondering further, I remember that in the course you taught this spring, while I was using the Discover Life keys for the first time, I found it...
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Diane L Larson
dlarson@...
Nov 10, 2009 4:24 pm
Hi all, Sam Droege and I will be starting a pollination network study at Badlands National Park next summer. As part of this study, we want to collect pollen...
