<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Peter,<div><br></div><div>I’m pretty sure that pic is of an Exoneura (reed bee) species. I dissected several hundred of their brains for a sequencing project and the one in the pic definitely looks similar!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Hollis</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Jun 25, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear Colleagues:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The two attachments are based on work performed by Australians. If you look at the photo you will see a bee perched on the autumn-flowering "parson's bands" orchid (Eriochilus sp.) in Western Australia. The bee is wearing the orchid's pollen (pollinia) on her head. Perhaps someone can key it down to genus. My first guess is that it's a member of the genus Leioproctus (Colletidae). The photo was taken by Rob Davis. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The attached article will take you into the unusual world of the duck orchid (Paracaleana minor). When looking at the photographs of the male wasp and the orchid's warty lip petal (labellum) remember, love is blind (and who are we to judge?).</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Peter</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Davis, Robert <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 5 May 2014 8:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> Brown, Andrew<br><b>Subject:</b> Bee<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Andrew, thanks for taking us out on the weekend thoroughly enjoyed it.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers, Rob<u></u><u></u></p></div>
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