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--Apple-Mail-1089--197550744 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Cory Sheffield > <cory.silas.sheffield@gmail.com> > Subject: [ValleyNature] small green bees, Wolfville dyke > > SEPT. 19, 2013 - I walked on the main dyke east of Wolfville > Harbour in the afternoon, and, on the hard-packed soil trail on top > of the dyke, there were lots of small, bright royal green bees > flying around low to the ground and going in and out of burrows > that were about 3 mm. in diameter (unmeasured). The eyes, plus > head? and thorax, were very bright green (gorgeous in the > sunlight), and the abdomen was blackish with green stripes. I > thought these were probably solitary bees, but I saw at least two > go into one burrow. > > Perhaps Cory Sheffield can provide a tentative identification of > these bees? > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-1089--197550744 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>>, Cory Sheffield <<a = href=3D"mailto:cory.silas.sheffield@gmail.com">cory.silas.sheffield@gmail.= com</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] small green bees, = Wolfville dyke</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>SEPT. 19, = 2013</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"> - I walked on the main = dyke east of Wolfville Harbour in the afternoon, and, on the hard-packed = soil trail on top of the dyke, there were lots of </font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>small, = bright royal green bees </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">flying around low to the ground and going in and out = of</font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b> burrows </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6">that = were about 3 mm. in diameter (unmeasured). The eyes, plus head? = and thorax, were very bright green (gorgeous in the sunlight), and the = abdomen was blackish with green stripes. I thought these were = probably solitary bees, but I saw at least two go into one = burrow.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">Perhaps Cory Sheffield can provide a tentative identification = of these bees?</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-1089--197550744--
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