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Spring 2014 Bioohio the Quarterly Newsletter of the Ohio Biological Survey Spring 2014 BioOhio The Quarterly Newsletter of the Ohio Biological Survey In This Issue Te Ohio Natural History Conference was Connection. Please continue to send in those ONHC 2014 held February 15, 2014 in Columbus. It was a great nominations. We accept nominations year-round. Abstracts .......................... 2 event and I want to thank all of the folks that made As long as you have them in by January 1, we will it possible: paper and poster presenters, vendors, have time to consider them before the February attendees, the staf of the Ohio History Center, conference. You can learn more about the awards Metro Cuisine, Frank Brockmeyer, and the OBS on our webpage. CMNH Curator Board of Trustees. I would like to extend a special Around the time we were preparing for the Discovers 19 New Praying “thank you” to our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Gene Ohio Natural History Conference, we were also Mantis Species ............... 10 Kritsky from Mount Saint Joseph University, who receiving applications for our Small Grants Program. spoke on applying natural history, and used bees We received a number of proposals and were able as models for how humans have always looked to to fund six of them this year. Funded projects Urbanization, Higher nature for inspiration. I also want to thank Harvey include a survey of reptiles in Crawford County, Webster from the Cleveland Museum of Natural a biogeographic study of Plethodon salamanders, History, who presented a special lecture to mark Ohio millipede surveys, a study quantifying the th Patterns .......................... 11 the 100 anniversary of the extinction of the distribution of sand darters in SE Ohio, surveys of Passenger Pigeon and reminded us to remember Sphagnum moss in a threatened tamarack bog, and its history in order to avoid repeating it. We had a study of the interactions of bee foral resources many more great speakers who presented on bird within agricultural regions. I would like to point Fossils Prove Historic Ohio conservation, rattlesnakes, bee diversity, white- out that the number of submissions we have been Millstones Have French tailed deer, earthworms, teaching methodology, frog receiving for small grants has declined over the Origins ............................ 12 survivorship, salamander diversity, and freshwater last few years. I would encourage you and/or your mussels. We also had nineteen research posters on students to consider submitting a grant next year. a wide variety of topics. Tere was something for Tis is a priority program for OBS. As support and everyone at this year’s conference, and the abstracts funding for basic organismal research continues to Naturalist and Herbert of oral and poster presentations are featured in this decline (Tewksbury et al. 2014, BioScience 64:300- Osborn Award Info .......... 9 newsletter. We look forward to this event every year 310), we feel that we can help fll this gap. We are and it would not be possible without our members also looking for ways to increase the availability and friends. If you have comments or suggestions of funds in order to provide additional funding Organizational that might help us in the future, or if you have ideas opportunities. If you have comments or questions Contact Info .................... 9 for a keynote speaker, please don’t hesitate to contact about the program, please contact us. Grants are me at [email protected]. due by February 1 of each year and you can fnd I would also like to once again congratulate more information on our Projects Page. the recipients of our OBS Awards. Dr. Michael As always, thank you for your continued support Vincent from Miami University received the of the Ohio Biological Survey! Herbert Osborn Award, while Bob Glotzhober from the Ohio Historical Society received the OBS Naturalist Award. We are pleased to recognize their accomplishments during their very distinguished careers and appreciate those who nominated them. Both award recipients received some publicity following the announcement; Michael Vincent was recognized by The Oxford Press, while Bob Greg Smith Glotzhober was celebrated by the Ohio History Executive Director Volume 22 No. 2 Page 1 Abstracts from the 2014 Ohio Natural History Conference Applying Natural History Columbus during peak bird migration are pending. Tese include population periods to help guide the implementation viability modeling, population genetic work, Gene Kritsky of Lights Out Columbus. During peak and GIS modeling. Populations continue to Mount St. Joseph University bird migration periods in 2012 and 2013, be impacted by poaching, intentional killing, morning surveys for bird collisions and accidental killings, and habitat destruction Abstract: Natural history is more than nighttime surveys for lights were conducted and incompatible management practices a feld of knowledge; it has inspired the by trained volunteers along the survey route from logging. development of our cultures and early in downtown Columbus. Te number of birds technologies. Fundamental aspects of insect found at a building was positively correlated Bee Diversity and Floral Constancy development and behavior have infuenced with the building’s average light index (R2 = in Washington County, Ohio Egyptian, Greek, and Hopi myths (among 0.72, t(19) = 2.61, p = 0.000). Tis fnding others), and these cultures adapted insect supports the need for Lights Out programs MaLisa Spring, Katy Lustofn, and Dave natural history to develop new technologies to guide building owners, managers, and McShafrey and industries that changed their societies. residents in reducing nighttime lighting. Marietta College, Department of Biology and Te history of apiculture provides a case In addition to reducing energy usage and Environmental Science study of how people have applied honey bee associated costs, our data show that eforts to biology to develop new methods of increasing reduce nighttime lighting on buildings could Abstract: We examined the bee honey and wax production over the past four reduce the number of migratory birds killed populations and diversity in Washington millennia. Some of these methods (those by building collisions. County, Ohio, and the pollination services not based on sound natural history) failed, contributed by each species as denoted by the while others improved apicultural practices. The Present Status of Ohio’s Timber pollen found on the scopa. Lack of information Natural history continues to provide Rattlesnake about bee populations makes it difcult to insights that may lead to new applications in notice change in populations. Furthermore, engineering and medicine. Doug Wynn not many studies have examined the pollen Te Ohio State University, Department of collected by each individual bee. We looked Employing Lights Out Programs to Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at bees at three sites in Washington County Reduce Bird Collisions: Results from to get a better idea of the diversity present. the Lights Out Columbus Monitoring Abstract: Timber rattlesnake studies Bees were collected every two weeks from Program were initiated in Ohio in 1989 when the April 2013 to October 2013 using pan traps Division of Natural Areas and Preserves as well as occasional supplemental vane traps Amanda Duren funded projects to collect data from the Tar and sweep-netting. A total of 2,756 bees Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative Hollow and Shawnee State Forests. Studies were collected and identifed to genus, and if have continued every year since and as possible, species. Over 33 genera of bees were Abstract: Every spring and fall, millions sample sizes have increased to 665 Timber collected, representing over 55 species in fve of birds migrate through Ohio on their way rattlesnakes, most basic natural history facts families. Te most common genera were to or from their breeding grounds. Many have changed considerably. Tis species has Andrena, Osmia, Lasioglossum, and Ceratina. birds migrate at night, and lights on tall now been documented from eight counties Over 80 bees had visible pollen loads; the buildings or aimed at the sky can disorient within the last fve years. Approximately 65 pollen was identifed to family. Pollinator them and draw them into the buildings. dens are now known. Tey are found on constancy was determined by evaluating Building collisions are a leading cause of every aspect, rocky ledges are rare, and in the diferent types of pollen collected on bird fatality in North America, estimated to some cases no rocks are visibly present. Males each individual. Most of the pollen samples kill 550 million birds each year. Lights Out average 101 cm in length (47-135) and were from Andrena spp. with more pollen programs provide an opportunity to reduce females 85 cm (45-118). Newborns (n=47) constancy in the frst sample date of April collisions by working with building owners average 31.6 cm (23.0 – 42.3) in length and 21st when Claytonia virginica is present. On and managers to reduce lighting at their have an average weight of 29.1g (10.3-44.0). later dates, Andrena was much less constant, buildings. In 2012, Lights Out Columbus Births have occurred between August 22 and collecting several diferent types of pollen. was initiated through a partnership led by September 27. Te average litter size (n=12) We provide a baseline understanding of the Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative and is only 6.6. Some aspects of their biology our current bee populations in SE Ohio, as the Grange Insurance Audubon Center. A still remain unanswered since recaptures are well as insight into the pollination services volunteer-based monitoring program was rare. For example, of the 665 encounters, of each bee species. Tis data contributes to developed to collect data on bird collisions fourteen are recaptures. Data have been nationwide research about the current status and lighting from buildings in downtown provided to other workers and their results of bee populations. Volume 22 No. 2 Page 2 Understanding Combined Effects descriptions of fock size defy imagination.
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