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For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at [email protected]. et al.: TGLE Vol. 52 Nos. 1 & 2 Full Issue Vol. 52, Nos. 1 & 2 Spring/Summer 2019 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY Published by ValpoScholar, 2019 1 The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 52, No. 1 [2019], Art. 1 THE MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2018–19 OFFICERS President Elly Maxwell President Elect David Houghton Immediate Pate President Matthew Douglas Secretary Adrienne O’Brien Treasurer Angie Pytel Member-at-Large John Douglass Member-at-Large Martin Andree Member-at-Large James Dunn Member-at-Large Toby Petrice Lead Journal Scientific Editor Kristi Bugajski Lead Journal Production Editor Alicia Bray Associate Journal Editor Anthony Cognato Associate Journal Editor Julie Craves Associate Journal Editor David Houghton Associate Journal Editor Ronald Priest Associate Journal Editor William Ruesink Associate Journal Editor William Scharf Associate Journal Editor Daniel Swanson Newsletter Editor Mark O’Brien Webmaster Mark O’Brien The Michigan Entomological Society traces its origins to the old Detroit Entomological Society and was organized on 4 November 1954 to “. .promote the science of entomology in all its branches and by all feasible means, and to advance cooperation and good fellowship among persons interested in entomology.” The Society attempts to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information in both amateur and professional circles, and encourages the study of insects by youth. 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Articles are available in pdf format and can be printed from the website, free of charge. To view current and past volumes, please visit http://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/ . https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol52/iss1/1 2 et al.: TGLE Vol. 52 Nos. 1 & 2 Full Issue 2019 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 1 Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Rediscovered in Michigan, with Notes on the Distribution and Status of its Macropis Hosts T.J. Wood1,2*, M.F. Killewald1,3, K.K. Graham1, J. Gibbs3 and R. Isaacs1 1 Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA 2 Current affiliation: Laboratory of Zoology, University of Mons, 7000, Mons, Belgium 3 Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, 12 Dafoe Rd., Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada *Corresponding author: (e-mail: [email protected]) Abstract Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson 1878) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is one of the rarest bees in North America with only a handful of records since 1960. Epeoloides pilosulus is a brood parasite of Macropis bees, which until recently had not been collected in Michigan since 1944. Bee surveys in Midland County, Michigan have led to the rediscovery of E. pilosulus in this state – the first record in 74 years. Michigan becomes the fourth state whereE. pi- losulus has been rediscovered after Connecticut in 2006, New York in 2014 and Maine in 2016, and the sixth region in North America after Nova Scotia in 2002 and Alberta in 2010. State-wide bee surveys have also shown that the principal host, Macropis nuda (Provancher 1882), remains widespread in Michigan, and that Macropis patellata Patton 1880 is newly recorded for the state. Key words: parasitic bee, oil bee, oligolege, bee surveys, Lysimachia The status of wild bee species and from this genus (Michez and Patiny 2005). populations has been the subject of a great Floral oils are mixed with pollen provisions deal of attention by the scientific community and used to waterproof the linings of the cell in recent years, with rapidly contracting wall (Cane et al. 1983), allowing Macropis to distributions for bees such as Bombus affinis nest in the damp soils favored by Lysimachia Cresson documented in the United States species (Fig. 1B). Epeoloides pilosulus is thus and Canada (Colla and Packer 2008; Cam- twice restricted; first by the limited suite of eron et al. 2011). Understanding population bee species that it parasitizes and second declines in wild bees outside of the genus by the narrow ecological niche occupied by Bombus has been more difficult, in part be- its hosts. cause many solitary bee species are rare in Epeoloides pilosulus is consequently collections, either because they have small very rarely collected. Most specimens in geographic ranges or because they are phe- Michigan were collected in the early part of nologically limited to a narrow flight period the 20th century with the last record made and require specialized collection effort in in 1944. This fits into the overall trend for order to detect (Harrison et al. 2017). Indeed, E. pilosulus, as the species was not recorded in a study of the population trends of wild in North America between 1960 and 2002 bees in the northeastern United States, 87 (but see Sheffield and Heron 2018), until of the 438 species (19.9%) were represented it was rediscovered in Nova Scotia based by only 10 to 30 specimens over a 140-year on two male specimens collected in a pan period, making assessment of their historic trap (Sheffield et al. 2004). There have only and contemporary statuses challenging been four additional contemporary records (Bartomeus et al. 2013). of E. pilosulus in North America since then, One bee species that has been very in Connecticut (2006, Wagner and Ascher infrequently recorded in North America is 2008), Alberta (2010, Sheffield and Heron Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson). Epeoloides 2018), New York (2014, http://bugguide. pilosulus is a brood parasite of Macropis bees net/node/view/954741), and Maine (2016, (Sheffield et al. 2004; Wagner and Ascher Dibble et al. 2017). In Michigan, E. pilosulus 2008), which are themselves specialists on is known from four counties in the central Lysimachia species (Fig. 1A, Primulaceae), and southern Lower Peninsula (Berrien, collecting pollen and floral oils exclusively Midland, Van Buren, and Wayne). Published by ValpoScholar, 2019 3 The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 52, No. 1 [2019], Art. 1 2 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 52, Nos. 1–2 Figure 1. A. Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata L.) flower. B.Lysimachia ciliata in flower in damp prairie fen habitat at Ives Road Fen, Lenawee County. C. European Dotted Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata L.) outside an abandoned house in Felch, Dickinson County. D-F. Macropis nuda (Provancher) individuals at Algonac State Park, St. Clair County. D. Macropis nuda male showing distinctive yellow facial maculations. E-F. Macropis nuda female collecting pollen from L. ciliata. Only one species of Macropis has been igan, being last recorded in 1959 and not recorded from Michigan – Macropis nuda rediscovered until 2017 in Hillsdale County (Provancher). Macropis nuda has a large (Gibbs et al. 2017). range and is known from Canada, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, and the The aim of this paper is to report on the United States, from Montana and Colorado findings of recent bee faunal surveys across to the New England states (Mitchell 1960; Michigan that include the rediscovery of E. Michez and Patiny 2005; Sheffield and Heron pilosulus and have expanded our under- 2018). However, like E. pilosulus, M. nuda standing of the status of Macropis species appeared to have disappeared from Mich- in the state. https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol52/iss1/1 4 et al.: TGLE Vol. 52 Nos. 1 & 2 Full Issue 2019 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 3 Methods Algonac State Park, 42.650, –82.531, T.J. Wood, 14 July 2018, 1♂, 1♀, L. ciliata, Fig. As part of our Michigan bee survey 1D–F; Tuscola Co.: Dayton, S Plain Road we visited the Averill Preserve (43.6618, x James Road, 43.462, –83.268, T.J. Wood, –84.3500; managed by Little Forks Conser- 25 June 2018, 1♂, 1♀, L. ciliata. vancy) in Midland County every other week from mid-June to mid-September in 2017 Macropis nuda was not known from and 2018. During each visit, we spent one Alcona, Hillsdale, St. Clair and Tuscola coun- cumulative hour sampling bees using aerial ties prior to its discovery there in 2017–2018. nets, and we recorded which plants bees were The historic and contemporary distributions caught on. Surveys focused on open habitats, are shown in Fig. 2A. with surveyors searching all flowering plants within these areas. Similar sampling meth- Macropis (Macropis) patellata ods were used at seven other sites in Mid- Patton 1880 land, Ingham, Shiawassee, Kalamazoo, and Current records: Lenawee Co.: Ives Livingston counties.