<div dir="ltr">You will find the attached of some interest. The photos are very good.<div><br></div><div>Peter<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:growlove@cox.net">growlove@cox.net</a></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:growlove@cox.net">growlove@cox.net</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:01 AM<br>Subject: Re: Flies in the orchids<br>To: Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<div>Dear Dr, Bernhardt,</div>
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<div>I changed computers, and I do not readily have available the PDF article with the photos placed. This PDF has the photos at the end, which I think is good enough. I would be happy to send you a few copies of the magazine with the article in it as well as a subscription starting in summer to the magazine on me if you send me the preferred address to receive it.</div>
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<div>Thank you for all the references and for your fine article and the amazing fly photo.</div>
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<div>You are a good friend and mentor.</div>
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<div>Fondly,</div>
<div>Carol</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" dir="ltr"><i><b>From:</b></i> <a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">Peter Bernhardt</a></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" dir="ltr"><i><b>Date:</b></i> 5/9/2016 6:26:40 PM</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" dir="ltr"><i><b>To:</b></i> <a href="mailto:growlove@cox.net" target="_blank">carol siegel</a></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" dir="ltr"><i><b>Cc:</b></i> <a href="mailto:i.a.palmer@talk21.com" target="_blank">IRENE PALMER</a></div>
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<div><br></div>Dear Carol:
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<div>I went to the library of the Missouri Botanical Garden this afternoon and found your article on fly-pollination in "Orchid Digest." Would you mind sending me an e-copy? A number of colleagues could use it and Dr Retha Edens-Meier will be pleased that someone is citing our most reason book.</div>
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<div>However, now I feel very guilty that I did not give you a more complete story. Part of the reason is that we were working on fly-pollination during a sabbatical in eastern Australia from Jan. - April 2016. In fact, I returned to America April 21 and our pollinators were less than 2 mms in length..</div>
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<div>I should have referred you to studies on middle orchids (Corunastylis) that begin in the 1940's. The problem is that the taxonomy has been tangled for years and you find the references under their old name of Prasophyllum but then it turns into Genoplesium before it becomes Corunastylis. We were studying the pollination of 5 species in New South Wales. The dominant pollinators are members of the family Chloropidae and may represent only one genus at the present time. Dr Dan Bickel at the Australian Museum must identify the 300 flies we caught on the flowers. In the earliest papers from the mid-20th century the flies are often misidentified as drosophilids. </div>
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<div>An article I wrote for the Australian Orchid Foundation is attached and will be published in a week, or so. I've also included a photo of one of our flies photographed at the Australian Museum by Dr John Martin. This fly (most seem to be females) visited a flower of C. fimbriata. See how the drying stipe bends down so the pollinia is held over the head of the fly but does not touch the head. Go to Youtube and put the words Corunastylis fimbriata and Corunastylis ruppii in their Search box. Look at the two videos we made showing differences in labellum movement. If you use a search at Youtube for Australian pollination a video of Dr Bickel and the chloropids should turn up.</div>
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<div>To keep up with the weird pollination world of orchids in Australia I have a book to recommended. I met author/photographer Rudie Kuiter when I went to Melbourne in April. He's Dutch by birth and did some work for David Attenborough at some point as Rudie is really known for his photographer of fish and coral. See the following link to the third edition...</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/orchid-pollinators-of-victoria-2" target="_blank">https://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/orchid-pollinators-of-victoria-2</a><br></div>
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<div>This is the one you want but DON"T buy it from an Australian distributor. By it directly from Rudie Kuiter <<a href="mailto:rudiekuiter@optusnet.com.au" target="_blank">rudiekuiter@optusnet.com.au</a>> and it's OK to mention me.</div>
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