[Pollinator] Fwd: Celebrating East Africa's Pollinators

[Peter Bernhardt]

Dear Colleagues:

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!

Peter Bernhardt

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From: Walker, Ken <kwalker at museum.vic.gov.au>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Pollinator] Celebrating East Africa's Pollinators
To: Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>


 Hi Peter,



> 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?



Thanks for the suggestion but as I have mentioned before, my Museum does
not want me working on bees.



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.







Besides, before my bee working days were curtailed, I produced a website
with diagnostic images for almost all Australian native bees:



It contains 1652 species:





Full classification ability:





Each species has its own webpage with species distribution maps:









Some species contain video showing live activity.







All images are montaged images which delivers images will full resolution.





This was a 2 years task which the museum allowed me to do.



Cheers,



Ken
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