From SYSAM@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDUMon May 22 07:14:19 1995 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 08:35:28 EDT From: Aaron Morris To: dicka@cuug.ab.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 17:58:50 ARG Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: NESTOR@ARUTNCAI.BITNET hello: i hope you understand me, i write you because need information about bee, and tell me, please, how i can obtain it. i hope ear to you very soom. thank you very much. nestor luzzani. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 18:27:56 EDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Edward E Southwick I am looking for any data on any insects using horizons for orientating. I heard that someone (Ruttner?) discussed some years ago that honey bee drones used horizons and other shaarply delineated landmarks for flight orientation. Know any references or unpublished work?? Thank you for your help! ================================================================== 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, 10 Apr 91 21:07:38 EDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Jonathan Beard <72301.563@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: BEE TECH Hi, I read the nice piece on Internet in New York Newsday, and was interested in your bee research node. I am a free lance science writer, and have done a couple of mellitology pieces, one on Steve Buchmann of the USDA bee lab in Tucson and his use of electronic scales, pollen traps and bar coding. I am looking for other technology stories about bees and insects. I write for New Scientist in London and a Scandinavian monthly (Illustreret Videnskab) Jonathan Beard. (this is my compuserve address, I am not on Internet per se yet.) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 13:53:17 ARG Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Insectos Sociales Subject: Bee Teams Does anyone know if there are references on the possibility that bees forage "in teams" (i.e. they would arrive and/or depart "in phase" from a patch)? Many thanks in advance Martin Giurfa Lab. of behavioural physiology University of Buenos Aires Insectos Sociales inssoc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 12:53:39 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Subject: bees foraging in teams What an interesting idea! Come to think of it, I venture to suggest that Apis dorsata may forage in teams. In Indonesia when these bees are foraging on Decaspermum treelets, they appear en masse over a short span of time (minutes) and when the foraging stops, it does so equally abruptly. Foraging takes place over a couple of hours every second day, when the flowers open. The flowers remain open all day, but it is only in the morning from ca. 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. that the dorsata bees are present. Andrew Lack (Oxford Polytechnic) and I describe this activity in our paper in Biol. Journal of the Linnean Society 25:319 - 330 (1985). Reprints are still available to interested Bee-Liners who want to send their postal addresses. Now, whether the almost synchronous arrival and departure of the bees represents team foraging, I don't know. It would seem difficult to completely divorce "team-foraging" from recruitment. There may be another "team" approach to foraging by some bees. I suspect that some Trigona guard floral patches for nest mates who are foraging. I can't remember reading anything about this sort of team approach of guards and foragers, but perhaps others have. Does Roubik make note of anything like this, I wonder? With best wishes, Peter Kevan, U of Guelph, On N1G 2W1, Canada. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 14:52:00 NZST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: SRCJBJD@CMV.DSIR.GOVT.NZ Subject: A LIST OF USERS REVIEW BEE-L ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 18:24:12 EDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Jonathan Beard <72301.563@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: BEE ARTICLE Dear friends, Things happen fast when you get on Internet's Bee Line. I now have an assignment from New Scientist to write a feature on the bumblebee pollination business and Africanized bees invading North America. I would appreciate hearing from researchers who have news or good color photos for this article. I intend to cover the (apparent) failure of breeding European genes into the Africanized bees, their likely flyways (someone is using GIS for this), any hints of punitive legislation, plans by growers of crops (alfalfa? Cotton? Almonds?) which might be hard hit by a bee-ban to do anything else, etc. I wrote an article on the USDA and Africanized bees a couple of years ago for The Scientist (Rinderer, Collins and Taylor). I would like to talk to others this time out. Jonathan D. Beard 820 West End Avenue 3B New York City 10025-5328 212-749-1055 MCI 308-5680 Compuserve 72301,563 Fax 212-662-3426 Internet 72301.563@compuserve.Com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 11:07:00 CST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: KESLER@RHODES.BITNET I am interested in the effect of room lighting on waggle dance direction in an observation hive. Is there a CRITICAL intensity, wavelength, and/or orientation of the lighting which causes a switching from gravity to the light in the dance? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 12:51:40 EDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Edward E Southwick Subject: light and the dance To answer Kesler on light effect on the dance. You should contact Spangler at USDA in Tucson, AZ. He has done some interesting observing on how the dances are reduced to nil as the light intensity goes to nil!! Maybe they really don't dance in the dark? I would like to hear more about the effect of light on the dance from others... ================================================================== 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, 17 Apr 91 17:56:38 CDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: ZHIYONG@UIUCVMD.BITNET Dear Bee-Liners: I am finishing a review of honey bee ecology, to be published in a Chinese book. In checking my references, I found that one of the paper refered had the journal issue and page #s missing. The Japanese journal cannot be located in the libary and the reprint is missing from my collection . I tried Citation Source Index, but it is not in there from 1984-1990. I therefore, as a last resort, hope some of you may have this reprint in your collection, or maybe you can get access to an extensive CD ROM and find the paper there (I tried two of them, but they did not have the very one I needed) , or happen to have this journal, or (who knows ?) some bee-liners may be in Japan. The incomplete citation is as follows: SASAKI, M., T. IROKAWA AND M. SATO 1989. Humoral control of queen pheromone (9ODA) biosynthesis in honeybees: induction in queenless worker and in worker mandibular gland implanted into queen. Bulletin of the Faculty o f Agriculture, Tamagawa University. ??:???-???. Many thanks to all. Zhi-yong Huang, Entomology, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. Tel: 217-333-6843. Fax 217-244-3499. zhiyong@uiucvmd. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 18:07:00 CST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: KESLER@RHODES.BITNET Another question - Does anybody have a current reference on grooming behavior (grooming dance) in relation to daily patterns, or mite infections? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 15:41:35 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: peter kevan Subject: frigate Hello: Does anyone know about the toxicity of adjuvants and surfactants used with pesticides? I am interested to know about Frigate (R) which is used with the herbicide, Glyfosate (or is it Glyphosate?) Thanks, Peter. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 09:28:20 -0100 Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: "W.D.J. Kirk" Subject: teams For information on foraging in teams in ants, try: Franks, N.R. (1986) Teams in social insects: group retrieval of prey by army ants (Eciton burchelli, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 18, 425-429 William Kirk, University of Keele, UK ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 07:31:08 CDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: "David E. Goldberg" Subject: Genetic Algorithm Course, July 22-26, 1991 A five-day short course entitled "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning" will be presented at Stanford University's Western Institute in Computer Science on July 22-26 by David E. Goldberg (Illinois) and John R. Koza (Stanford). The course presents in-depth coverage of GA mechanics, theory, and application in search, optimization, and machine learning. Students will be encouraged to solve their own problems in hands-on computer workshops monitored by the course instructors. For further information regarding this course contact Joleen Barnhill, Western Institute in Computer Science, PO Box 1238, Magalia, CA 95954, (916) 873-0575, email: barnhill@hudson.stanford.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 15:17:39 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Kevan Subject: Pollen for Pollination Dear All: I would like to know the names and addresses of any companies which provide pollen for use in pollination. I know Antles did or do, but I can't find their address anywhere. Any other sources of pollen for pollination, irrespective of crop, would be most appreciated. Thanks. Peter Kevan, University of Guelph. P.S. I am not interested, at the moment, on pollen for human consumption. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 13:58:06 +0200 Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: EISIK@TAUNOS.BITNET Subject: Re: Pollen for Pollination In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 24 Apr 91 15:17:39 EST dear Peter, Here are few addresses that might help you,Northwest GGourmet Inc.,E ast,419 st. Thomas moore waySpokane,Wa 99208,U:S:A:...Fax:509 325 0676 Co.Inc .301 North 1st Av.Yakima Washington,98902, U.S.A.,FirmYield,Pollen servises, In .,2826 Rudkin Rd,Yakima, Wa 98903, Utel:5094528063.tel 5094521495, Fax:509 575 458.I have good experience with North west, All your nice papers arrived today m any thanks , Dini. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 17:29:00 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: G7JKTL@IRISHMVS.BITNET Subject: light and the dance bees shurely dance in the dark‹‹ see v.Frisch's book dance language nad orientation of honey bees Jim Gould changed light intensity until dances were not affected anymore. B.Schrickker investigated light intensity and dance. References are in Gould's 1975 science paper ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 17:51:00 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: G7JKTL@IRISHMVS.BITNET Subject: light and the dance sorry for the incompleteness of the previous message. I am working on a terminal that does not allow for corrections. The paper by j.gould has the title "honey bee recruitment: the dance language controversy", Science 189:685-693. The paper by B.Schricker has the title "Die Orientierungsfluege der Honigbiene in der Daemmerung", Z.vergl.Physiol.49,420-458. Ppaper is written in German and should make good reading. v.Frisch's book "The Dance Loanguage and Orientation of Bees" was published 1967, Harvard University Press. I recorded dances on horizontal combs in the dark, results are in "Beitraege zum Problem der Entfernungsweisung in den Schwaenzeltaenzen der Honigbienen", Z.vergl.Physiol.48,534-546, 1964. Bees do definitely dance in the dark, just observe them in an observation hive under red light. Harald Esch Department of Biological Sciences University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 16:19:00 PDT Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Quelle barbe! Subject: RE: light and the dance This is my first posting. I hope that it's appropriate; if not, please let me know directly. On behalf of a colleague, can anyone direct me toward studies that show significant yields of certain varieties of soybeans when pollinated by honeybees? Thanks. Clint Darling Darling@Catlin ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 14:20:04 EST Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: Peter Kevan Subject: RE: light and the dance In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 26 Apr 91 16:19:00 PDT from Not on light, but on Soya Beans: There was a peper in American Bee Journals some years ago on the topic. The up-shot...some varieties show better yields when honey- bees are present in the fields, others don't. My work on cv. Maple Arrow in Ontario showed the latter result. The work in ABJ was, I seem to remember, authored by Martin. I may be able to come up with a citation, but right now lots of my files are packed away after a building move. The literature in general indicates that honeybees are not needed (I suspect this generalization to be correct, but with lots of exceptions) as is indicated by Free (1970) and McGregor (1976). Do you know these encyclopaedic works..Free,J.B. Insect Pollination of Crops, Acvademic Press.; McGregor, S. E. 1976 USDA Handbook ? exact title but Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants rings a bell. I hope this helps a bit. Cheers, Peter Kevan, U of Guelph. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 18:05:00 C Reply-To: Discussion of Bee Biology Sender: Discussion of Bee Biology From: RAINER@SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR Subject: bee swarms Porto Alegre, 30 April 1991 Working with stingless bees I am interested in their swarming behavior and especially in COHESION OF BEES IN A SWARM. How do bees get to a distant target as a whole group? From Apis it is said that the Nasanov gland substances are involved. Anybody who can suggest some papers or personal experiences? Thank you Rainer Radtke ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Radtke PUC, Lab. Pesq. Biologicas Tel: 0512-391511 ramal 3280 Av. Ipiranga, 6681 Fax: 0512-391564 90.620 Porto Alegre, RS Bitnet: Rainer@SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR Brasil ----------------------------------------------------------------