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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spike<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] bees again<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>... On Behalf Of MB<br>Subject: Re: [ExI] bees again<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>>... So far this season I've seen *one* honeybee and several tiny native bees...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='color:black'>Those tiny native bees are probably Nomia melanderi, if you are west of the Rockies in the US.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.ebeehoney.com/Pollination.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=124 height=93 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCE5C7.69BA6E60" alt="Description: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQyW67xBBOFJjMNAgeSQhaH_iTKooZXlwqXDV9gpiaV6TUphrNbDbxml1w"></span></a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>><a href="http://www.ebeehoney.com/Pollination.html">http://www.ebeehoney.com/Pollination.html</a> This one is a digger, smaller than the familiar honeybee.</span> spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>On the other hand, you did specify tiny, and the melanderi are not all that much smaller than honeybees. But this guy is much smaller, less than half the size of a typical honeybee, the Megahilidae, or leafcutter bee:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leaf-cutter-bee.jpg"><b><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=220 height=138 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CCE5C7.69BA6E60" alt="Description: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Leaf-cutter-bee.jpg/220px-Leaf-cutter-bee.jpg"></span></b></a><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachilidae">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachilidae</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>I seldom see those around here, but they might be common where you are. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>MB, seldom a day goes by that I don’t marvel at how lucky we are to live in the internet age. I remember all too well just twenty years ago spending 80 bucks for a really nice bee book. Today that book is practically useless: I can’t do google searches in it. Part of having it made is knowing when you have it made. We do. Information which was so recently so hard to find and get, is now at our fingertips constantly. We are swimming in information, happier than pigs in the mud.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>