<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cane, Jim</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jim.Cane@ars.usda.gov">Jim.Cane@ars.usda.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:24 AM<br>Subject: RE: [beemonitoring] Re: Something New To Worry About?<br>To: Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br><br><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Peter- I have not seen the papers either, but offhand the logic seems all backwards.  Shouldn’t the question be about what resources a pollen grain needs to do its thing, and how to package that?  The former seems obvious.  The latter
 comes to mind for a lot of buzz-pollinated pollens, which tend to be dry with little pollenkitt (so the respond to buzzing?), and so their contents are concentrated.  Or so I expect.  Since there has yet to be evidence that bees can judge protein content of
 pollen, that source of selection remains speculative even if it were plausible.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">yerz<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">James H. Cane<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research Unit<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322 USA
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">email: <a href="mailto:Jim.Cane@ars.usda.gov" target="_blank">Jim.Cane@ars.usda.gov</a> 
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<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=18333" target="_blank">http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=18333</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">publications:<u><span style="color:blue"> <a href="http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/piru/" target="_blank">http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/piru/</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gardening for Bees: <a href="http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/factsheet/plants-pollinators09.pdf" target="_blank">http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/factsheet/plants-pollinators09.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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