All: I am having some trepidations about 3 species of recently introduced bees whose populations appear to be skyrocketing. Osmia cornifrons Osmia taurus ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
All: The lab next door to mine has a new portable x-ray gizmo that takes accurate readings of metals from samples. These are usually soil samples, but I gave...
Greetings bee fans! I am anticipating starting a doctoral program to study pollination ecology/ bee diversity this fall and have applied to several programs to...
Hello bee folks, Has anyone out there collected bees from the median of a major (say 6 lanes plus) highway? If so, did you find the baseline bee community of...
Speaking of traps, has anyone tried the brilliant blue plastic ones that cause bees to land in a bottle? Sujaya Rao, Bill Stephen's student, says that they...
OK, even I tire of persistent resistance so I concede to your "suggestion" to stay inside the box as you define it. Big Daddy (Sam) runs his plantation...
Background 1: In my Baltimore City neighborhood, and in many urban areas, Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) is now one of the most important flowers for ...
Sam: Of course, this "conflict of interests" points to more than mere descriptions of message board forums. As I told John, I am a "beemonitor" who lives in...
Sam: Are you able to refine this list to the species likely to be found in the Baltimore Metro Area? To the Baltimore list, could you also include any...
Prior to European arrival to N.A. during the time that indigenous people were "managing"; the landscape, which early season flower species were being used by...
Since the biological imperative of flowering plants is to set fertilized seed, does the production of fertilized seed suggest that local pollinators favor a...
All: Attached is a list of the common bees of the Washington D.C. area, based on our surveys over the past several years. While we do plan to publish a ...
Announcing the Guide to the Identification of the U.S. and Canadian Bees in the Genus Perdita East of the Mississippi River Rebekah Nelson and Sam Droege (With...
USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Invites you to participate in an interactive, online training session in using: Discoverlife Native Bee...
USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Beltsville, MD Open Lab Dates for Those Interested in Learning to Identify...
Major changes have taken place in the Discover Life Green_bees guide which included the genera Agapostemon, Augochlora, Augochloropsis, Augochlorella. There is...
All: Rebekah Nelson and I have been working on ways to tell female Hylaeus affinis from H. modestus. In most areas they make up the bulk of the Hylaeus catch...
Given the prevalance of these two species, I thought it worth sending out a quick note about discriminating the females. Expanding on Sandra Rehan work on...
All: Leah Larkin (U New Mexico) and a number of other people have been working on creating online guides to the genus Andrena. At this point the guides can be...
Greetings: We have developed an inexpensive insect pinning box in our lab and would like to share that information with others. Instructions are attached. sam...
Hello bee monitors, I hoping to assess bee density / abundance at my study sites, which are residential flower gardens in a suburban area. From the studies...
