<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues:<div><br></div><div>Now that we have that excellent new book on the identification of North America's bumblebees I thought you would like to see how some Australian entomologists made hard copy and online sites to help the public identify their own native bees. Unfortunately, Dr Walker is not working on bee taxonomy anymore (he used to identify my Hibbertia, Persoonia and Acacia bees) but look at this portion of the magnificent website he devised. It's hard to believe I gave him my specimens of Leioproctus (Filiglossa) filamentous over 20 years ago!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter Bernhardt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Walker, Ken</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwalker@museum.vic.gov.au">kwalker@museum.vic.gov.au</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:49 PM<br>Subject: RE: [Pollinator] Celebrating East Africa's Pollinators<br>To: Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hi Peter,<u></u><u></u></span></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Why not have your museum do something like this for the state of Victoria - OR - perhaps a booklet for pollinators of eastern (south eastern?) Australia? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks for the suggestion but as I have mentioned before, my Museum does not want me working on bees.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Anne Dollin and Michael Batley have already produced an award winning book of bee of the Sydney region. They would be the best people to deliver such a book.<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img height="627" src="cid:image001.png@01CF6F58.F8FB07C0" width="447"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Besides, before my bee working days were curtailed, I produced a website with diagnostic images for almost all Australian native bees:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It contains 1652 species:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="516" src="cid:image002.png@01CF6F58.F8FB07C0" width="353"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Full classification ability:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="883" src="cid:image003.png@01CF6F59.53450B40" width="975"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Each species has its own webpage with species distribution maps:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="780" src="cid:image004.png@01CF6F59.53450B40" width="968"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="782" src="cid:image005.png@01CF6F59.C017EE40" width="964"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Some species contain video showing live activity.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="903" src="cid:image006.png@01CF6F59.C017EE40" width="967"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">All images are montaged images which delivers images will full resolution.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img height="708" src="cid:image007.png@01CF6F59.C017EE40" width="905"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This was a 2 years task which the museum allowed me to do. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ken<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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