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mailman-bounces@lists.sonic.net [mailto:mailman-bounces@lists.sonic.net] <b><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Solitary Bee Nesting
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Plains Area </a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Utah </a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Patent Office Full Record</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Patent Number: 6364738<br>
Docket Number: 13800<br>
Serial Number: 9726873<br>
Date Patented: 04/02/2002<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Solitary Bee Nesting Block <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Technology Description:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>ARS
scientists have developed a durable nesting system that imitates the comforts
of the blue orchard bee’s natural habitat. This development will allow farmers
to tap into the benefits of this highly efficient agricultural pollinator.
Blue orchard bees offer significant increases in pollination levels in
orchard crops like cherries, apples, almonds and pears. Blue orchard bees
have not been widely commercialized due to lack of a suitable nesting system
to raise the bees. In nature, the bees build their nests in abandoned beetle
burrows in timber and dead trees. Other commercially available nests are
expensive to produce or less durable. This modular, lightweight plastic block
provides about 49 7.5-millimeter holes on front and back. The blocks
interlock so that orchard farmers can add as many blocks as they need--about
12 blocks per acre is sufficient for optimal pollination. This invention is
affordable for small farmers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>This
technology will give farmers an alternative to honey bees, whose commercial
availability is declining due to increased management costs for controlling
Varroa, trachael mites and Africanized honey bees–which are not a
threat to blue orchard bees. Blue orchard bees can be used on their own or
together with honey bees in the same orchard. Blue orchard bees don’t
produce honey.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>Please
refer to Patent Number 6,364,738, "Solitary Bee Nesting
Block," which issued on April 2, 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Inventors:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Verdana'>Jordi Bosch Gras<br>
Bee Biology and Systematics Lab<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Logan</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Utah</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">84322</st1:PostalCode></st1:place> <br>
(435) 797-2588 / Fax: (435) 797-0461 <br>
nomada@biology.usu.edu <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>Lamar
Chet Kendell<br>
Kendell Orchards<br>
785 East 3000 North<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">North Ogden</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Utah</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">84414</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
(801) 781-4856<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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(Same as first inventor)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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