[Pollinator] Fwd: Andrena helianthi

[Peter Bernhardt]

You're going to love this.  Dr Gerardo Camilo (Biology, SLU, office next to
mine at St. Louis University) has been running a study on pollinator
diversity in urban sites here in St. Louis for two seasons.  Here is a
photo of the most recent, urban resident from Earth Dance farms (urban
veggies).  I washed and stained the pollen of this Andrena Helianthi
carried (it's a boy bee by the way).  It carried lots of asteraceous
pollen.

The big news is that this specimen makes 101 urban bee species collected by
Gerardo's team in the metropolitan area (most in inner city parks and waste
ground).  This does not include all the additional species of pollinating
Diptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.  Gerardo presented his data at the
Ecology Society of America meeting over the summer.  There are similar
studies in other American and Canadian cities but St. Louis accounts for
more urban bee species than anywhere else, thus far.

Note that Dr Camilo's email address is available below.

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gerardo Camilo <camilogr at slu.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Subject: Andrena helianthi
To: Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>


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-- 
Gerardo R Camilo, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor of Biology
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
   & International Studies
Conservation Fellow, St. Louis Zoo
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