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Thank you
Saroj Kasaju
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From: giby.ku...@gmail.com <giby.kuriak...@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 1:25:14 PM UTC+5:45
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:117514] efloraofindia:''For Id 240520121MR1’’
?fluorescent beetle on Ecbolium ligustrinum at Pune
To: drneil...@yahoo.com <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com>
Cc: Bhagyashri Ranade <itii...@gmail.com>, efloraofindia
<indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>
I feel the species that Bhagyashri ji had posted is different. There are
several species of *Amegilla*.
I am not sure about idying species of bees by looking at pictures. Even
entomologists wouldn't try that. Because they need to get the minute
characters of the insect. Here I feel that the species of Amegilla posted
by Neil ji is different from that of Bhagyashri ji's picture.
Regards,
Giby
On 24 May 2012 13:01, Neil Soares <drneil...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
Affirmative. This is the Blue-banded Bee [Amegilla cingulata]. Sending a
few of my photographs taken on my property at Shahapur.
With regards,
Neil Soares.
--- On *Thu, 5/24/12, Bhagyashri <iti...@gmail.com>* wrote:
From: Bhagyashri <iti...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:117514] efloraofindia:''For Id 240520121MR1’’
?fluorescent beetle on Ecbolium ligustrinum at Pune
To: "Giby Kuriakose" <giby.ku...@gmail.com>
Cc: "efloraofindia" <indian...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 12:44 PM
Thank you so much Giby ji for the Id and this very interesting info about
the bee. Yes, as you said it was foraging extremely fast for just a few
seconds. I hope to spot it resting some day. Nature is amazing: blue
colored bee, another shade of blue is the flower and yet another shade of
blue the anthers!!. There was another pollinator too foraging the same
flower. I will post it separately.
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Giby Kuriakose <giby.ku...@gmail.com
<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=giby.kuriak...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Hi,
Usually after foraging bees/insects fold back the proboscis and then
straighten as it reaches the next flower. But here since the bee is very
fast in foraging and movement from flower to flower, it always keep its
proboscis strait. It might be a strategy to avoid wasting time and keep the
fast movement and foraging. If you follow the bee after visiting certain
number of flowers, it rests somewhere and remove pollen grains and dusts
from its body
Regards,
Giby
On 24 May 2012 12:01, Giby Kuriakose <giby.ku...@gmail.com
<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=giby.kuriak...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
It is not a beetle. But it is a species of *Amegilla *bee of Apidae
family.
It is a solitary bee and a good pollinator.
Very fast in movement and foraging nectar within few seconds (1,2 or 3 sec)
it forages nectar from a flower that fit for this bee.
Regards,
Giby.
On 24 May 2012 11:48, Bhagyashri <iti...@gmail.com
<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=itii...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
Pune May 2012
Would appreciate your help to Id this fluorescent blue colored ?beetle
on Ecbolium ligustrinum. It was moving very fast making a loud buzzing
sound. Is it the mouth parts and the eye that is seen in the pic?
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Thanks and regards
Bhagyashri
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GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave,
Jakkur Post, Srirampura
Bangalore- 560064
India
Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile)
visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
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GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave,
Jakkur Post, Srirampura
Bangalore- 560064
India
Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile)
visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
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Regards
Bhagyashri
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GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave,
Jakkur Post, Srirampura
Bangalore- 560064
India
Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile)
visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
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