From SYSAM@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDUMon May 22 06:43:09 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 08:34:35 EDT From: Aaron Morris To: dicka@cuug.ab.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 12:57:12 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: MILNE@WSUVM1.BITNET Fellow Bee-Lers; I have recently received research funds to support a graduate student to study honey bee gene transfer beginning either summer or fall 1990. The student should be seeking a Ph. D. degree, have some experience with bees, and have some molecular genetics training. If you know of any promising and available students, please contact me ASAP. Interested students should apply this month to; Department of Entomology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-6432 Contact me for further information at; Snail mail address above E-mail MILNE@WSUVM1 Phone (509) 335-2141 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 17:37:48 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Kevan In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 31 Jan 90 12:32:39 EST from Re: non-honey bees and apples: Boyle-Makowski's papers see Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 118: 125-141; Can. Ent. 17: 509-521; J. Hort. Sci. 58: 355-363. Dear Ed: I'm now back from Asia, oil palms and coconuts. Cheers, Peter. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 17:49:26 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Kevan Subject: Re: bees, bees and bees In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 2 Feb 90 11:05:47 CST from Dear Zhiyong: Nice to hear your electronic voice. I just got back from Malaysia, Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Everyone here is fine and I'll pass on your message of greeting. Gong Xi Fat Choi for the year of the Horse. Peter. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 08:03:58 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Subject: Re: brazilnut pollination In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 14 Feb 90 15:51:00 MST from Dear Dave: There was a paper written by Prance in Biotropica some years ago on pollination and other related subjects for Lecythidaceae. Cheers Peter. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 08:19:23 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Subject: Recent articles In HONEYBEE SCIENCE Vol. 11, No. 1 are a number of interesting articles mostly in Japanese, bit some have English summaries. I point out the more important articles: Kazuo Murakami & Takao Itino Foraging behavior of pollinator bees on Chinese milk vetch Astragalus sinicus (Leguminosae) in relation to diurnal nectar-secreting pattern of the flowers. pp. 11-16 Lab. of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, 761-07, Japan. Takuro Irokawa Induction of the queen substance (9-ODA) synthesis in the worker mandibular gland implanted in the queen honeybee, Apic mellifera L. pp. 17-20 Faculty of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Machida-shi, Tokyo, 194, Japan Seita Fujiwara Notes on the biology of Apis cerana japonica and endeavor of their conservation in northern Japan. pp. 21-26 3-10 Wakasono-cho, Morioka-shi, Iwate, 020 Japan OTHER JOURNALS Romel, K. 1989 (1990). Reproductive behaviour of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Proc. entomol. Soc. Ontario 120: 74 (Abstract) Dept. Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont N1G 2W1, Canada. Agren, J. 1989. Seed size and number in Rubus chamaemorus: between-habitat variation, and effects of defoliation and supplemental pollination. J. Ecology 77(4):1080-1092. Dept. Forest Site Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-901 83 Umea, Sweden. ISRAEL JOURNAL OF BOTANY has special issue dedicated to Prof J. Galil on the occasion of his 75th birthday: ADVANCES IN POLLINATION ECOLOGY CONTAINS 17 papers, but not specifically any on honeybees. Most of the papers have a botanical thrust. AVAILABLE for $27.50 U.S. from Weizmann Science Press, P. O. Box 801 Jerusalem 91007 Israel. *****ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY***** THAT'S IT FOR THE MOMENT, CHEERS TO ALL, PETER KEVAN, U OF GEULPH, CANADA. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Mar 90 08:02:01 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: COURANT@FRINRA72.BITNET Subject: International symposium An international symposium organized by APIMONDIA will be held : in Gent (Belgium) September 5-7, 1990 on RECENT RESEARCH ON BEE PATHOLOGY The following special themes will be treated in specific, evntually concurrent, sessions: - All aspects of varroatosis and other acarine disease - Fungal infections - Virus diseases - Bacterial diseases - Protozoic diseases The registration form and abstracts of papers and posters should be submitted by June 15 to: Prof. Dr. O Van Laere Research Station for Nematology and Entomology Van Gansberghelaan 96 B-9220 Merebelke (Belgium) Tel: 32-91.52.20.85 Fax: 32-91.52.15.83 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Mar 90 08:25:36 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: COURANT@FRINRA72.BITNET Subject: Recent bee literature INSECTES SOCIAUX, 1989, Vol.36, No.4 1) Plateaux-Quenu C., Plateaux L., Packer L. Biological notes on Evylaeus villosulus (Hym., Halictidae), a bivoltine, largely solitary halictine bee, 245-263 CNRS, Laboratoire d'Evolution, 105 Bd Raspail, F-75006 Paris (France) 2) Huang Z.Y., Otis G.W. Factors determining hypopharyngeal gland activity of worker honey bees, 264-276 Univ. Guelph, Deprtment of Environmental Biology, Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1 (Canada ) The other papers of this issue concern ants and termites. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 11:18:01 +0200 Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: EISIK@TAUNOS.BITNET Subject: reply In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 5 Mar 90 17:37:48 EST Dear Peter, How was in Asia?, I'M trying to get money for pollination under Plas plastic covers, if all will go smoothly, you will be invited to take part, its d ue to be Jan. feb. 1991, it is in the Arava Valley ,exellent weather at that tin time, details in Holland, see you than,Cheers Dan. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 09:06:05 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: "Edward E. Southwick" Subject: Personal Mail Dear people, PLEASE refrain from using BEE-L for personal mail. BEE-L is very useful to keep up-to-date on bee research, however, we are getting complaints from users because of the personal mail going through the system. If you want to send personal mail to someone on BEE-L, please use the subscriber list to find out their personal e-mail address and send it direct. Otherwise we ALL see your mail and it merely clogs up the system. To get anyones personal address, send a message to LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1 and ask for REVIEW BEE-L. You will then be sent all the personal addresses of subscribers. If you are unsuccessful using this feature, please telephone them or write to them by snail mail to find out their e-mail address. Thank you for your cooperation. BEE-L Management ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 21:05:00 CST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: RB02817@SWTEXAS.BITNET Subject: Africanized Honey Bee Does anyone know of a good source on the movement of the Africanized Honey Bee? I am most interested in the southern movement into Argentina and Chile. I would like to compare the southern movement with the bee's northern movement into Texas and the southern US. I have already discovered the AHB and 'Killer Bee' VANCE BIBLIOGRAPHY 85-88 and a few entomology journal articles. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Robert Burke Southwest Texas State University RB02817@SWTEXAS ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Mar 90 20:05:10 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: "Edward E. Southwick" A colleague in Ethiopia is looking for help in his retirement on running a profitable beekeeping business. He can use any help...in the form of advice, contacts, money, equipment and supplies, etc. He has been through a beekeeping course and has kept a few bees in the past. Now he wants to gear up for a bigger operation. If you can help, please respond directly to the address below. Thank you! ================================================================== º Edward E. Southwick Department of Biology º º Phone 716-395-5743 State University of New York º º FAX 716-395-2416 Brockport, New York 14420 º º BITNET SOUTHWIK@BROCK1P U.S.A. º ================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Mar 90 17:19:01 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: peter kevan Subject: alternative hosts for Varroa I would be most grateful to anyone who can let me know about records on ALTERNATIVE HOSTS FOR VARROA MITES What other insects have they been found on? Even if just phoretic (riding around on) Does Varroa use flowers for finding hosts? Thank you for your help, Peter. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Mar 90 09:04:00 +0100 Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: INGEMARF@EVA.SLU.SE Subject: Re: alternative hosts for Varroa Peter! Two references that relate to your request for information on alternative hosts for Varroa mites. Gerig, L. 1987. Wespen als varroatrdgerinnen. Schweiz. Bienenztg. 110: 340-344. Hartwig, A. & Jedruszuk, V.S.A. 1987. Survival of Varroa jacobsoni mites on flowers. Proc. XXXI Int. Congr. Apic., Warsaw. Apimondia Publ. House, Bucharest: 229-233. Ingemar Fries INGEMARF@EVA.SLU.SE ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Mar 90 07:29:47 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 21 Mar 90 20:05:10 EST from Dear Ed: Your colleague should get in touch with Nicola Bradbear at IBRA. She will have a good handle on who is doing what in beekeeping in Ethiopia. There is lots of potential for beekeeping, honey and wax production in Ethiopia. There have been some development projects, but the earlier ones were not very well conceived nor very useful and generally unsuccessful. I don't know about more recent, in the last 5 years, projects. It is difficult to know what sort of help is needed for your colleague, so I can not offer much advice. I know that Langstroth hives have been used in the past, but mostly without much success. That probably resulted from inadequate training and in-country infra- structure (i.e. no trained apiculuralists). For small scale operations Kenya Top-bar hives would probably work better. Development projects in beekeeping in may underdeveloped countries have failed because of lack of adequately trained national apiculturalists. It's all very well to teach people to keep bees, but the knowledge of the average beekeeper, even in N. America and Europe, is pretty shallow. The presence of trained professionals is needed for extension work and for knowing how, or who to contact elsewhere, to address the unforeseen or unusual problems by way of techniques or research. Without that sort of infrastructure to support beekeeping, sooner or later, it fails and leaves disillusioned ex-beekeepers behind. Cheers, Peter. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Mar 90 10:26:30 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: "Edward E. Southwick" Subject: Varroa I would suggest you talk to the mite experts such as Eickwort, Ritter, Delfinado-Baker. Wolfgang Ritter has been especially active in this area. He is at the Tierhygienisches Inst Freiburg, Am Moosweiher 2, Postfac 5140, D-7800 FREIBURG, W.Germany ================================================================== º Edward E. Southwick Department of Biology º º Phone 716-395-5743 State University of New York º º FAX 716-395-2416 Brockport, New York 14420 º º BITNET SOUTHWIK@BROCK1P U.S.A. º ================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Mar 90 09:31:22 CST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Dave Goldberg Subject: Dortmund Workshop on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PLEASE FORWARD FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) October 1 - 3, 1990 University of Dortmund, Germany F.R. Scope With the appearance of massively parallel computers increased attention has been paid to algorithms which rely upon analogies to natural processes. The workshop scope includes but is not limited to the following topics: - Darwinian methods such as Evolution Strategies and Genetic Algorithms - Boltzmann methods such as Simulated Annealing - Classifier systems and Neural Networks insofar as problem solving predominates - Transfer of other natural metaphors to artificial problem solving The objectives of this workshop are - to bring together scientists and practitioners working on and with such strategies. - to gather theoretical results about as well as experimental comparisons between these algorithms. - to discuss various implementations on different parallel computer architectures (e.g. SIMD, MIMD, LAN). - to look for current and future applications in science, technology, and administration. - to summarize the state of the art in this field which up to now has been scattered so widely among disciplines as well as geographically. Submission of papers, Proceedings Prospective authors are invited to submit 4 copies of an extended abstract of two pages to the conference chair before June 1, 1990. All contributions will be reviewed by the programme committee and up to about 30 papers will be selected for presentation. Authors will get notice about acceptance or rejection of their papers by July 15, 1990. Full papers will be due on September 1, 1990. They will be delivered to all participants at the conference as a prepublication volume. Final papers for the proceedings of the workshop should be finished immediately after the workshop. Details about the format of the camera-ready final papers will be distributed later. Language The official language for papers and presentations is English. Conference Chair: H. Muehlenbein and H.-P. Schwefel Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik University of Dortmund und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) -Z1- Dept. of Computer Science P. O. Box 12 40, Schloss Birlinghoven P. O. Box 50 05 00 D-5205 St. Augustin 1 D-4600 Dortmund 50 F. R. Germany F. R. Germany Tel. +49-2241-142405 Tel. +49-231-755-4590 Fax +49-2241-142889 Fax +49-231-755-2047 bitnet grzia0@dbngmd21 bitnet uin005@ddohrz11 Programme Committee: (chair) D.E. Goldberg Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA (chair) R. Maenner Univ. of Heidelberg, FRG Institute of Physics Philosophenweg 12 D-6900 Heidelberg 1 Tel. +49-6221-569363 Fax +49-6221-475733 bitnet maen@dhdmpi50 E.M.L. Aarts Philips Res.Lab. Eindhoven, NL P. Bock Univ. of Washington DC, USA V. Cerny Univ. of Bratislava, CSSR Y. Davidor Weizmann Inst. Rehovot, Israel G. Dueck IBM Heidelberg, FRG J.J. Grefenstette Naval Res.Lab. Washington DC, USA A.W.J. Kolen Univ. of Limburg, Maastricht, NL B. Manderick Univ. of Brussels, Belgium H. Roeck Univ. of Bielefeld, FRG H. Schwaertzel Siemens AG Munich, FRG B. Soucek Univ. of Zagreb, YU H.-M. Voigt Academy of Sciences Berlin, GDR Organization Committee: J. Becker, H. Bracklo, H.-P. Schwefel, E. Speckenmeyer, A. Ultsch Sponsors: Parsytec GmbH and Paracom GmbH, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Siemens AG Deadlines: Abstracts (2 pages) June 1, 1990 Notification of acceptance July 15, 1990 Full papers (for preprints) September 1, 1990 Workshop October 1-3, 1990 Final papers November 1, 1990 Reply Form International Workhop Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) Dortmund, October 1-3, 1990 c/o Prof. Dr. H.-P. Schwefel Dept. of Computer Science Tel. +49-2 31/7 55/45 90 P. O. Box 50 05 00 Fax +49-2 31/7 55/20 47 D-4600 Dortmund 50 bitnet uin005@ddohrz11 F. R. Germany Title First Name Middle Initials Last Name ................................................................. Institution ..................................................... Address ......................................................... ................................................................. ................................................................. 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