<div dir="ltr">Very interesting; I've only conducted two months of study on bees for my PhD study, but the change in bee community composition (likely linked in a large part by the large shift in floral composition) is INCREDIBLE! It's amazing how much the abundance, diversity, and composition of bee communities can change at a site in just a month (in my system, at least).<div>Regards,</div><div>Kit</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 December 2016 at 19:56, 'Droege, Sam' <a href="mailto:sdroege@usgs.gov">sdroege@usgs.gov</a> [beemonitoring] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p></p><div dir="ltr">All<div><br></div><div>Apologies for any cross-postings</div><div><br></div><div>We have just put up charts showing corrected capture by week (phenology) for bee genera in the Mid-Atlantic area (NJ, MD, PA, VA, WV, DC, DE) of North America.</div><div><br></div><div>Over 7000 collection events were used.</div><div>With 170K specimen records</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to share, download, and use anyway you like citizens.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sdroege/bee-genera-phenology-2016" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/<wbr>sdroege/bee-genera-phenology-<wbr>2016</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Next year we will do charts showing species graphs with males female totals separated out.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sam</div><div><br></div><div><div>Sam Droege <a href="mailto:sdroege@usgs.gov" target="_blank">sdroege@usgs.gov</a> </div><div>w <a href="tel:(301)%20497-5840" value="+13014975840" target="_blank">301-497-5840</a> h <a href="tel:(301)%20390-7759" value="+13013907759" target="_blank">301-390-7759</a> fax <a href="tel:(301)%20497-5624" value="+13014975624" target="_blank">301-497-5624</a></div><div>USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center</div><div>BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705</div><div><a href="Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov" target="_blank">Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov</a></div><div><br></div><div>Nuclear Physicists use Astounding</div><div>Comparisons to Make Clear the Nature</div><div>of Infinite Numbers</div><div><br></div><div>An adult male Norwegian</div><div>weighs as much as</div><div>two and a half billion</div><div>boxelder bugs.</div><div>Is it any surprise that</div><div>there are more boxelder bugs</div><div>than Norwegians?</div><div>Imagine a planet in which</div><div>Norwegians crawled up</div><div>and down your kitchen walls</div><div>by the thousands, hid</div><div>under the warm coffee pot,</div><div>fell like discolored noodles out</div><div>of the noodle bags where they slept;</div><div>after the blizzards started,</div><div>you would find Norwegians</div><div>dried inside light fixtures, Norwegians</div><div>clogging up the vacuum cleaner,</div><div>Norwegians floating in</div><div>cups of lukewarem coffee.</div><div><br></div><div> -Bill Holm</div></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_526690001737711102gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><i><b>Bees are Not Optional</b></i></div><div style="text-align:center"><i><b><font size="1">Apes sunt et non liberum</font><br></b></i></div></div></div>
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