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From: kegarvey@ucdavis.edu<BR>To: Ladadams@aol.com<BR>Sent: 1/27/2011 2:48:25
P.M. Pacific Standard Time<BR>Subj: RE: [Pollinator] Fwd: wool carder<BR></DIV>
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you post this on your list? We just wrote a response.
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Wool
Carder Bee Is Not the Terrorist Some Folks Think It Is<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P>DAVIS--The European wool carder bee is not the terrorist that some folks
think it is. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P>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.” <o:p></o:p></P>
<P>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.” <o:p></o:p></P>
<P>It’s a pollinator and it does what pollinators do, say UC Davis
entomologists. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P>“The species <EM>(Anthidium manicatum)</EM> was first collected in
Sunnyvale, Calif. in 2007 and it was well established in the Central Valley by
2008,” said entomologist <A title=http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=kimsey href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=kimsey">Lynn
Kimsey</A>, director of the <A title=http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/ href="http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/">Bohart Museum on Entomology</A> (home of
more than seven million insect specimens, including wool carder bees) and
professor and former chair of the UC Davis Department Entomology.
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<P>“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.”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P>Neither gender has five stingers; the male has five spikelike projections
on its abdomen that it uses to defend its territory.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P>“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 <A title=http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/PEOPLE/ericmussen.html href="http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/PEOPLE/ericmussen.html">Eric Mussen</A>,
Extension apiculturist with the UC Davis Department of Entomology
faculty.<o:p></o:p></P>
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more at <A title=http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html">http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/woolcarderbee.html</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Keatley Garvey<BR>Communications Specialist<BR>Department of
Entomology<BR>396A Briggs Hall<BR>One Shields Ave.<BR>University of
California, Davis<BR>Davis, CA 95616<BR>Phone: (530) 754-6894<BR>Fax: (530)
752-1537<BR><A title=mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu href="mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">kegarvey@ucdavis.edu</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><BR><A title=http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm</SPAN></A><BR><A title=http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/ href="http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu</SPAN></A><BR><A title=http://ucanr.org/index.cfm href="http://ucanr.org/index.cfm"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://ucanr.org/index.cfm</SPAN></A><BR><A title=http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/ href="http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><BR><A title=http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/ href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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pollinator-bounces+kegarvey=ucdavis.edu@lists.sonic.net
[mailto:pollinator-bounces+kegarvey=ucdavis.edu@lists.sonic.net] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Ladadams@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:47
PM<BR><B>To:</B> pollinator@nappc.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Pollinator] Fwd:
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chip@ku.edu<BR>To: Ladadams@aol.com<BR>Sent: 1/26/2011 9:41:24 P.M. Pacific
Standard Time<BR>Subj: wool carder<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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1. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande','serif'"><BR></SPAN><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Wool
Carder Bee / Leafcutting Bee -</SPAN></U><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">
Anthidium manicatum</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Explore
close-up photos and the natural history of male, female and mating pairs of
the "wool carder" leafcutting bee,<B> Anthidium
manicatum</B>.<BR>
2.
www.cirrusimage.com/bees_Megachilidae_<B>Anthidium</B>.htm - Cached -
Similar</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande','serif'"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">?<BR>3.
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande','serif'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Anthidium
manicatum</SPAN></B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> -
-- Discover Life</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Discover
Life's page about the biology, natural history, ecology, identification and
distribution of<B> Anthidium manicatum</B> - -- Discover
Life.<BR> 4.
www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=<B>Anthidium</B>+<B>manicatum</B> -
Cached - Similar<BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Species</SPAN></U><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">
Anthidium manicatum</SPAN></B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> -
European Wool Carder Bee - BugGuide.Net</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Oct
8, 2004<B> ...</B> Genus<B> Anthidium</B>. Species<B> manicatum</B>
(European Wool Carder Bee). Synonyms and other taxonomic changes.
=marginatum, obtusatum<B> ...</B><BR>
6. bugguide.net/node/view/7744 - Cached -
Similar<BR> 7. <U>Images for</U><B>
Anthidium manicatum</B> - Report images</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande','serif'"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><BR>
8. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande','serif'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Anthidium</SPAN></B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> -
The reproductive behavior of <Emphasis Type="Italic</SPAN></U><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">
...</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">by
LL Severinghaus - 1981 - Cited by 70 - Related articles<BR>
9. The Reproductive Behavior of<B> Anthidium
manicatum</B> (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) and the Significance of Size for
Territorial Males<B> ...</B><BR>
10. www.springerlink.com/index/U22678031930M167.pdf
- Similar<BR>
11. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande','serif'"><BR></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Anthidium
manicatum</SPAN></B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</SPAN></U><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Anthidium
manicatum</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">,
common name European wool carder bee, is a species of bee in the family
Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees.<B>
...</B><BR>
12.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<B>Anthidium</B>_<B>manicatum</B> -
Cached<BR> 13.
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