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Vorona, 10.06.2009 22:27

Dear fellow students (as well as fellow students),
Can you tell me what's smart? shuffle.gif
The question is this. I want to know what insects pollinate some plant species (orchids, for that matter). The natural solution seems to be to be patient, sit down next to flowering plants and wait for someone to climb into the flower. But this happens infrequently (since there is nothing for insects to do in the flowers of many orchids). And the situation is aggravated by the fact that the insect then needs to be caught somehow (I can't determine it in the fieldteapot.gif), and the catcher is from me... I don't know what kind of trapper I am - I haven't tried it.
mol.gif Advise something, pzhlst! smile.gif

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11.06.2009 0:20, Pirx

Well, let the bee colonies connect themselves, and I, for my part, will upload one article...

File/s:



Tyteca_et_al_2006_Ophrys.pdf

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11.06.2009 6:36, Vorona

Thank you, Pirx! Unfortunately, we don't have any ofrises here...

11.06.2009 12:57, Pirx

And what is there?

11.06.2009 13:58, Tigran Oganesov

Paphiopedilum, apparently. Pollinators are mainly various webs and flies. In general, it is better, of course, to sit by a flower with a net and catch everyone who climbs into it. This is not as difficult as it may seem. The main thing is not to cut down the flower wink.gif
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11.06.2009 16:24, Vorona

smile.gif Bolivar, are you kidding or were you referring to Cypripedium?
Yes, I actually had more banal species in mind - Dactylorhiza different, Corallorhiza, Listera. So the flowers are much smaller...
Yes, basically there should be eardrums (in any case, they write that this is the case to the south).
And here is the question : if I need help identifying (or checking), and someone agrees to look, it will be completely rude to show them just starved untreated, or something still needs to be done with them? shuffle.gif

11.06.2009 18:07, Mylabris

Maybe sticky tape (like in fly shops)? This method was used when accounting for diptera in rodent burrows, for example...

11.06.2009 18:33, Vorona

Interesting actually with the tape. From the pros - you can hang it for a long time, and you won't miss anything. From the minuses - how can we exclude that insects were drawn to the tape? I don't know if it's her color or her smell. They don't really have any smell or nectar, so they're probably being pricked out of curiosity... Or rather, confusing it with something edible.
Mylabris, how does it feel to identify what's stuck? smile.gif
By the way, is such a tape sold somewhere, or was it in the days of distant childhood?

11.06.2009 18:58, Tigran Oganesov

  smile.gif Bolivar, are you kidding or were you referring to Cypripedium?
And here is the question : if I need help identifying (or checking), and someone agrees to look, it will be completely rude to show them just starved untreated, or something still needs to be done with them? shuffle.gif

Yes, of course Cypripedium. I was in the flower shop yesterday, looking at Paphiopedilum and apparently pereklinilo smile.gif

You don't need to use an extension to define it.

11.06.2009 19:01, Vabrus

  
By the way, is such a tape sold somewhere, or was it in the days of distant childhood?

In stores like "Everything for the garden and vegetable garden" look.

11.06.2009 21:13, Vorona

Thanks! smile.gif

20.06.2009 13:39, Aleksandr Ermakov

However, the tape will not help in the case of orchid pollinators (it is not yet known which will attract more-the flower or the Velcro itself). It is better to sit methodically at the flowers and grab everything that comes with a long pair of tweezers and a small net (so that the flower is not really demolished).
Pesenko's work on the methodology of quantitative accounting is available (Journal Ecology, 1972, No. 1).
According to my observations forest orchids are loved by flies and ants

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20.06.2009 14:02, Victor Titov

And here are the ants at work...
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20.06.2009 19:07, Vorona

Interestingly, I haven't read about ants anywhere.

20.06.2009 22:48, Victor Titov

Interestingly, I haven't read about ants anywhere.

I didn't read it either. But I saw it myself and captured it... smile.gif

21.06.2009 7:53, amara

Interestingly, I haven't read about ants anywhere.


http://books.google.com/books?id=kUGL1TAaE...result&resnum=2
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21.06.2009 10:07, Vorona

No, it's not about pollination. Ants live in a pseudobulb, eat" extravehicular " (so to speak) nectar, and at the same time rid the host plant of potential eaters-beetles. But what did they forget on Dactylorhiza?

21.06.2009 14:08, amara

23.06.2009 16:59, Vorona

smile.gif Every little thing that climbs into the flowers of Listera cordata and Corallorrhiza trifida turned out to be very convenient to catch in eppendorfs. So if anyone needs it, I recommend it yes.gif
But the flies don't want to do weep.gifthat

28.06.2009 7:28, Динусик

Well, let the bee colonies connect themselves, and I, for my part, will upload one article...


Dear Pirx, Could you please post this article again or send it to me on the soap? rogatnykh@yandex.ru ? I would be very grateful to you smile.gif

28.06.2009 9:14, Pirx

Then I'll post it on a file sharing site, so it will be more reliable.
http://rghost.ru/319378
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06.07.2010 21:34, Vorona

People, please advise us! smile.gif
I found potential pollinators in the flowers (whether they are stuck there, or stuck). I picked the flowers and killed the whole thing just in case. Which is better to do - now wash the insects with Fairies and try to somehow straighten them out (but there is absolutely no time for this...), or you can throw them in alcohol along with the flowers,and then suffer in the fall or winter?

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