[Pollinator] Shannon County is Not in Australia

[Peter Bernhardt]

On Friday, Dr Edens-Meier and I helped set up a display case for the annual
Orchid Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden (1 Feb. opening night).  We
loaned specimens from our collection of pollinators of Cypripedium
parviflorum (yellow lady's slipper) and Dr. Roubik sent orchid bees
(euglossines) from Panama (two wear the pollinia of epiphytic species).  Dr
Colin Bower loaned four male, thynnid wasps from New South Wales (all wear
the pollinia of spider caladenias).  Retha and I will attend the opening
night but the show, as usual, runs through mid-March and is open during the
day from 10AM - 4PM most days.  It may be free on Wednesday and Daturday
mornings but you have to check.

We were photographed while we worked on the exhibit and the PR person from
Saint Louis University was also present to take photos and record
information.  An article appeared in the university's online newspaper
campus this morning.  National media may pick it up but there is
a...problem.  We gave the PR person at St. Louis U. a photo of us at one of
our research sites but information about the site was "confused."
 Australians will be amused to see that Shannon County, Missouri, is in
Western Australia and the showy lady's slipper (Cypripedium reginae) is a
native species.  Yikes!  The PR person is correcting it now but why not
view the incorrect version?  Please see the following link.

http://www.slu.edu/x100278.xml

Peter
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