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A colleague of mine received this message the other day and I wondered if
anyone is working in this area or knows of anyone who is.<br><br>
Thanks <br><br>
Roger Downer<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear
Dan Fickle,<br>
I received your e-mail address from Jack Volker, telling me you are<br>
working with bees and that you are interested in my project. I received
by mail and collected myself over 20 dropping samples under the
nests from many places in Europa and found that Barn Swallows feed
honeybee drones to their nestlings.<br>
To my surprise, the American Barn Swallows do the<br>
same. That aroused my interest so much, that I want to look at some
more<br>
samples. One more question is, among many others, how much is it<br>
correlated to the distances to bee hives. The samples I collected<br>
recently, when I visited the U.S.A. again in Wilmington Delaware ,
I<br>
found remains of 93 drones under one nest. In Ohio in the area of
Magee<br>
marsh, Lake Erie I found only about 10 each under two nests. Jack
Volker<br>
is so helpful to gather some more feaces samples as soon as possible.
It<br>
would extremely interesting to know more about the other swallow
species<br>
in the States (purple martin, Cliff swallow, Barn swallow and
tree<br>
swallow). In some cases, I am afraid, we probably have to wait
until next summer.<br>
However, as long the material stays dry in a barn, the dropping can<br>
still be used. For more detailes you may get in touch with Jack
Volker<br>
again. I would welcome any kind of cooperation with you as an<br>
entomologist. You probably have contacts to some other
coleopterogists,<br>
because in the samples there are so many undetermined beetles. It
would<br>
be great to find someone, who could find out at least a few beetles<br>
more. You might write to me, in what cases we could be able to
work<br>
together. We probably could coauther a paper in English in the
States.<br>
My English is not as good, to do without a "nativ speaker".
First we<br>
would need some more samples. By the way, I am an alumni from
Bowling<br>
Green State University OH, studied biology from 1975 till 1980 and
specialised in birds and rodents. Just some years ago, I
started working as retiree on my own insect projects.<br>
I am looking forward receiving your suggestions.<br>
regards Manfred Temme<br><br>
Dr. Manfred Temme<br>
Biologist<br>
-Alter Horst-18<br>
26548 Norderney<br>
Germany<br>
Tel. 0049 4932 1277</font></blockquote></blockquote><br>
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Roger A. Downer Ph.D<br>
Research Scientist<br>
Lab for Pest Control Application Technology<br>
OARDC/OSU<br>
1680 Madison Ave.<br>
Wooster OH 44691<br>
Phone: 330-263-3931<br>
Fax: 330-263-3686<br>
e-mail: downer.2@osu.edu</body>
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