This video demonstrates how to dry bees that have been collected in bowl traps and washed see (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2y-ind12Cc) in soap and water. Two types of drying devices are shown...one using a hair dryer and the other using a homemade device made from a squirrel cage fan. For those of you who blunder onto this video...this is for people who collect scientific specimens and isn't for bee pets that have gotten wet! Links to some of our other sites are:
www.slideshare.net
Bee Identification Guides
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Apoidea
Handy Bee Manual
http://www.nbii.gov/images/uploaded/152986_1244054830561_Handy_Bee_Manual_Jun...
Listserv Discussion Group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/beemonitoring/
further Contact information
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
That will be in the next video...but essentially you apply glue to the pin (at the height you want) and lay the pin on the specimen...either on its side or underneath..tiny amounts of glue for small ones...a fair amount for large ones....it speads everything way up but museums don't like to see large specimens glued, but then again, we are doing surveys not museum work....a bit controversial
swdroege 1 year ago
Good video. Whats the gluing technique you do after you have the bees dried?
mmentomology 1 year ago