Since we put the leaf cutter bee cocoons out at both Site1a locations and at both Site3 locations we have been checking on them regularly. As you remember we added a leaf cutter bee component to our study since the Blue Orchard Bees did not successfully propagate.
We have checked the progress at the Site1a2f locations on 31 Aug 2019, 17 Sep 2019, and 23 Sep 2019. And we checked at Site3 on 14 Sep 2019.
This post updates the Site1a2f check data through 11 Oct 2019, see end of post. Since we have seen few if any of the leaf cutter bees emerging from the cocoons we decided to dissect a few of the remaining cocoons to determine if there are bees in there.
As you can see, most of the cocoons contained bees, but they were dead. We plan to do some analysis to see if we can determine what is going on.
RESULTS BY DATE:
20190909Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 2 live bees, no dead
bag 2: one dead, 'dead bee bag'
20190911Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, no dead
bag 2: one dead, 'dead bee bag'
20190913Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, no dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
20190915Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, no dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
8 am: 80 deg F, 60% humidity
20190917Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead, green
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag', yellow
930 am: 84 deg F, 48% humidity
20190919Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
7 am: 77 deg F, 42% humidity
20190921Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 1 dead, 'dead bee bag'
8 am: 74 deg F, 44% humidity
20190923Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
120 pm: 88 deg F, 74% humidity
20190925Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
650 am: 72 deg F, 72% humidity
20190930Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
7 am: 65 deg F, 69% humidity
20191001Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
915 am: 73 deg F, 39% humidity
20191003Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
7 am: 62 deg F, 64% humidity
20191007Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
7 am: 63 deg F, 56% humidity
20191009Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
7 am: 64 deg F, 43% humidity
20191011Site1a2f results:
bag 1: 0 live bees, 0 dead
bag 2: 0 live bees, 0 dead, 'dead bee bag'
? am: ? deg F, ?% humidity
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