Dear Colleagues: The Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney has put up a mixed media exhibition on plant evolution. They wanted some pinned euglossine bees to help...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 30, 2009 12:04 pm
All: We make changes and update the Discoverlife Guides almost on a daily basis, most changes are minor, others, though, are more substantial. To better keep...
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Vivian_NegronOrtiz@...
Nov 26, 2009 11:05 pm
I will be out of the office starting 11/26/2009 and will not return until 11/30/2009....
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Matthias Buck
buckmb@...
Nov 26, 2009 8:35 pm
Hello all, A list with the bee holdings at the Royal Alberta Museum can now be downloaded from our website: ...
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David_r_smith@...
Nov 24, 2009 8:18 pm
Hi All, I preserved some bees in 99% isopropyl alcohol without realizing it. They are very brittle. Will they rehydrate by simply soaking in water for a ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 24, 2009 7:46 pm
All: We have recently purchased a magnetic wrist band used by carpenters to hold screws, nails, and tools of various kinds to their wrists while they are...
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Erik_Oberg@...
Nov 23, 2009 9:02 pm
I will be out of the office starting 11/20/2009 and will not return until 11/30/2009. I will respond to your message when I return. Please contact ...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 23, 2009 4:31 pm
All: To some of you this may be old hat, however, we have recently found the joy of using Rotary Paper Trimmers to cut out labels. A rotary paper trimmer uses...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 18, 2009 12:54 pm
All: Erika Tucker with some help from Leo Shapiro and our gang of interns have put together a lovely guide to the 86 species of Chrysidids of Eastern North...
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barbara.abraham@...
Nov 16, 2009 9:32 pm
I found RR James and TL Pitts-Singer's (2008) Bee Pollination in Agricultural Ecosystems to be useful. Barb Barbara J. Abraham, Ph.D. Associate Professor SEEDS...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Nov 16, 2009 9:16 pm
Kimberly: Â The "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North America" by Krombein et al is available on line and is quite complete in its biological citations for...
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Kimberly N. Russell
krussell@...
Nov 16, 2009 8:53 pm
Dear All, I hate to bother you with this, but I am tyring to get some suggestions for an undergraduate I have working on a bee project. He is attempting to...
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Dave Green
pollinator2001
Nov 16, 2009 12:36 am
Sharon, As a long time commercial beekeeper, who is now retired, but keeping in touch with the beekeeping world, you can call me very much a skeptic of that...
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Sharon Muczynski
dirtface@...
Nov 15, 2009 11:02 pm
I have been trying to research the validity of the claim that organically maintained honey bee hives have been minimally affected by CCD. I have two questions:...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 12, 2009 7:46 pm
All: The parasitic Hymenoptera USDA group ran a study of color preferences of Hymenoptera in bowl traps a couple of springs ago. They gave me the 8600 bees...
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Diane L Larson
dlarson@...
Nov 12, 2009 4:23 pm
Thanks to everyone for all the great information on pollen collection! Diane ******************************************* Diane L. Larson Research Biologist ...
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Laura Burkle
lauraaburkle
Nov 12, 2009 3:01 pm
Sam and all, I don't have too much more to add that others haven't already mentioned. But I will put a plug in for using individual vials to collect bees from...
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 11, 2009 4:23 pm
Thanks Jack: I was thinking that Doug's technique sounds useful, but you would need to know if you had sampled that bee already (at least that day) or not but...
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Jack Neff
jlnatctmi
Nov 11, 2009 4:11 pm
Sam: Â I also have marked many bees of varying sizes with fast drying enamels and paint pens. I found it easier said than done. Being a clutz, I regularly...
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Anita M Collins, Ph.D.
frozenbeedoc@...
Nov 11, 2009 3:53 pm
Sam, WE have successfully used the paint pens that are now available to mark bees when a quick mark,say just the color, is needed. Seems to stay on enough for...
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kjard_us
Nov 11, 2009 2:06 pm
In the ant world many people have moved to little steel bands tied around the legs. The ants were just too good at cleaning themselves....
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Sam Droege
sam_droege
Nov 11, 2009 12:20 pm
Doug: Sounds like a good technique...You mentioned in another email some marking techniques for providing individual marks but I wonder if you have a quick ...
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T'ai Roulston
thr8z@...
Nov 11, 2009 1:11 am
My own method is similar to Doug's and seems to have little effect on bee mortality. I've been working with Colletes latitarsis, fairly similar in size to his...
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Jerry_Freilich@...
jerryfreilich
Nov 11, 2009 12:47 am
OK all you bee people. I'm an aquatic guy but I developed a method that might be useful for marking bees. When I first started working on tagging stonefly...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Nov 11, 2009 12:12 am
... In the six years I did this, and many hundreds of bees, I accidentally got paint on the wing bases about 3 or 4 times, and this made it impossible for the...
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Liz Day
fervidobombus
Nov 10, 2009 11:19 pm
... This is safe for them? They don't groom it off? I worry that the solvent will find its way into their body through the crevices in their cuticle as I...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Nov 10, 2009 10:42 pm
... Each bee in the population had been captured when returning to her nest, measured, marked, and released. The markings were with enamel model paint, in...
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Doug Yanega
dyanega@...
Nov 10, 2009 6:04 pm
OOH! OOH! OOH! (geeky kid in the back practically jumping out of his chair, waving his hand frantically for attention) I have the best technique EVER for...
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Maria Stanko
mstanko@...
Nov 10, 2009 5:45 pm
Hi Diane, I have collected this kind of data for my dissertation and use methods put together though talking with several other researchers who use similar ...
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David Inouye
dwinouye
Nov 10, 2009 4:45 pm
Pollen is pretty indestructible so there's no rush on getting the pollen off, unless the bees would be shaken around enough to remove pollen from their bodies....
