[Pollinator] Fwd: Fwd: wool carder

Fri Jan 28 11:57:10 PST 2011

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 From: kegarvey at ucdavis.edu
To: Ladadams at aol.com
Sent: 1/27/2011 2:48:25  P.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: RE: [Pollinator] Fwd: wool carder

Hi,   
Can  you post this on your list?  We just wrote a response.  
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html 
Wool  Carder Bee Is Not the Terrorist Some Folks Think It Is 
DAVIS--The European wool carder bee is not the terrorist that some folks  
think it is.   
The pollinator doesn’t cause colony collapse disorder (CCD). It’s not a  
newcomer to California. It doesn’t have five stingers. And it doesn’t target 
 honey bees leaving behind a “blood-soaked battlefield.”  
Entomologists at the University of California, Davis, are fielding a flurry 
 of phone calls and emails as a result of a Sacramento-based news story 
gone  viral.  A Sacramento resident  told an area TV station Jan. 24 that  he 
discovered the first-ever European wool carder bee in California on May 23,  
2009 and that it targets honey bees: it “cuts off their wings, cuts off 
their  antenna, cuts off their heads, cuts off their torsi (tarsi) and stabs 
them to  death.”   
It’s a pollinator and it does what pollinators do, say UC Davis  
entomologists.  
“The species (Anthidium manicatum) was first collected in  Sunnyvale, 
Calif. in 2007 and it was well established in the Central Valley by  2008,” said 
entomologist _Lynn  Kimsey_ 
(http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=kimsey) , director of  the _Bohart Museum on Entomology_ 
(http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/)  (home of  more than seven million insect specimens, 
including wool carder bees) and  professor and former chair of the UC Davis 
Department Entomology.   
“Males are territorial and very aggressive, attacking any insect that  
enters its territory that isn't a wool-carder female,” Kimsey said. “The males  
establish territories around flowering plants, so they will attack honey 
bees  and any other bees coming to visit the flowers.” 
Neither gender has five stingers; the male has five spikelike projections  
on its abdomen that it uses to defend its territory. 
“The number of honey bees that wool carder bees kills is probably no  
different than those honey bees lost to praying mantids, phorid flies and  
spiders,” said honey bee expert _Eric Mussen_ 
(http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/PEOPLE/ericmussen.html) ,  Extension apiculturist with the UC Davis Department of 
Entomology  faculty. 
See  more at _http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html_ 
(http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html)  
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Kathy  Keatley Garvey
Communications Specialist
Department of  Entomology
396A Briggs Hall
One Shields Ave.
University of  California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-6894
Fax: (530)  752-1537
_kegarvey at ucdavis.edu_ (mailto:kegarvey at ucdavis.edu)  
_http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm_ 
(http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm) 
_http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu_ (http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/) 
_http://ucanr.org/index.cfm_ (http://ucanr.org/index.cfm) 
_http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/_ (http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/) 
_http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/_ 
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/) 

From:  pollinator-bounces+kegarvey=ucdavis.edu at lists.sonic.net  
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Subject: [Pollinator] Fwd:  wool carder

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From:  chip at ku.edu
To: Ladadams at aol.com
Sent: 1/26/2011 9:41:24 P.M. Pacific  Standard Time
Subj: wool carder

Some  fact some fiction in the article just posted. So why isn't the 
killing of  hb's mentioned in the online articles? Since this is a European 
species, if  these bees are indeed killers of honey bees, that fact should be well 
 documented.

1.      
Wool  Carder Bee / Leafcutting Bee -  Anthidium manicatumExplore  close-up 
photos and the natural history of male, female and mating pairs of  the 
"wool carder" leafcutting bee, Anthidium  manicatum.
2.       www.cirrusimage.com/bees_Megachilidae_Anthidium.htm - Cached -  
Similar
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3.       
Anthidium  manicatum -  -- Discover LifeDiscover  Life's page about the 
biology, natural history, ecology, identification and  distribution of 
Anthidium manicatum - -- Discover  Life.
4.       www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Anthidium+manicatum -  Cached - 
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5.      

Species  Anthidium manicatum -  European Wool Carder Bee - BugGuide.NetOct  
8, 2004 ... Genus Anthidium. Species manicatum  (European Wool Carder Bee). 
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes.  =marginatum, obtusatum ...
6.      bugguide.net/node/view/7744 - Cached -  Similar
7.      Images for  Anthidium manicatum - Report images

8.      
Anthidium -  The reproductive behavior of <Emphasis Type="Italic  ...by  LL 
Severinghaus - 1981 - Cited by 70 - Related articles
9.      The Reproductive Behavior of Anthidium  manicatum (Hymenoptera: 
Megachilidae) and the Significance of Size for  Territorial Males ...
10.     www.springerlink.com/index/U22678031930M167.pdf  - Similar
11.     
Anthidium  manicatum -  Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAnthidium  
manicatum,  common name European wool carder bee, is a species of bee in the family  
Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees.  ...
12.      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthidium_manicatum -  Cached
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