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Charles Michener, professor of entomology, systematics and ecology has been awarded a five-year federal grant to study bee and wasp behavior.
He will concentrate on chemical odor communication
Bees may recognize odors
Professor studies insect communication
By CASSIE McQUEENY Staff Reporter
There may be a few things your mother never told you about the birds and the bees.
Charles Michener, professor of entomology, systematics, and ecology at the University of Kansas, recently received a National Science Foundation grant to his hypothesis that bee and wasp communication is based on odor recognition.
If his theory is correct, Michener said, it might be possible to generalize that all insects communicate through odors called pheromones.
"Our research could have significance in understanding insect communication in general," he said. "Variation and population control are
possible if you know exactly how insects interact."
Michener said he would study communication patterns among primitive bees and wasps and would try to use this information make up of individual insect's odors.
Robert Carlson, professor of chemistry, and Brian Smith, York, Pa., graduate student, are helping with the insect research.
SUCH CHEMICAL research with bees never has been done, Michener said.
A basic understanding of bee behavior is important in order to understand
Michener said that if the male bee recognized the odor of the potential mate as that of a female he had mated and was unable to nurse and would reject the female bee.
shadow or a pebble or something,
hoping to find a mate. They continually
pounce and then fly back up into
flight."
"Female bees store sperm cells." Mitchen said, "and it would be a waste of time for a male to mate with the same female."
differences in toe odors." he said, "it will then be possible to do experiments with synthetic odors. We can create our own combinations and try to determine the effects and acceptability of these synthetic odors."
"Male bees fly in the air above female bees," Michener said. "And they pounce on dark spots, even if it's a
Michener said he would experiment with the synthetic odors in bee colonies. This will help determine how "guard" bees behave.
"Bee colonies have a guard bee who selects the bees that will be allowed to come inside," Michener said. "We believe this selection process is also valuable for guards. We will fool the guard bee with guards that study the percentage of acceptability."
BEES' COMMUNICATION is based on the chemical contents of pheromones. Michener said the study by Millec shows exactly what the pheromones comprise.
The $44,000 grant awarded to Michener is for a five-year period. He plans to publish several papers on his research before completing the project.
"After we determine the relative proponents that make up the individual
study at the center to learn methods of assessing iron status in diets.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An International Center for Controlling Nutritional Anemia will be established at the University of Kansas Medical Center later this month, the Med Center announced recently.
The United States Agency for International Development will finance the center with $1 million for three years. James Cook, Phillips professor of medicine and director of the division of hematology at the Med Center, will direct the center, said Molly Reuser, administrative assistant to Cook.
The center will concentrate on nutritional anemia problems in developing nations, Reusser said. Doctors and researchers from these nations will
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KU gets anemia control center
Reusser said that by providing information about nutritional anemia and iron-rich diets to developing countries, the center hoped to urge the countries' governments to establish programs to combat iron deficiencies.
RESEARCHERS FROM THE Med Center will also conduct field studies in some foreign countries to determine the amount of iron deficiency in those countries.
Nutritional anemia is associated with iron deficiency from improper diet and results in chronic fatigue, Reusser said.
ZIMMERMAN DECLINED to say whether he was running as part of a coalition. He also declined to say whom he would vote with in the November Senate elections.
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences, and Cook will sign the cooperative agreement establishing the center Sept. 24 at the U.S. Capitol. Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, will also attend.
In a letter Monday to David Adkins, student body president, Zimmerman announced his resignation as chairman of the committee, to be effective at a meeting of the committee Monday. The committee is primarily in charge of allocating funds to student organizations.
Zimmerman had been co-chairman of the committee with Tom Berger, graduate senator, since November. Berger resigned during the summer in a dispute concerning the proposed purchase of an $8,000 computer system by the Student Senate Executive Committee.
StudEx member resigns
David Zimmerman, chairman of the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, resigned Monday to pursue a full-time job as president body president or vice president.
People in this country are not aware of nutritional anemia in lesser developed countries. The problem is not prevalent here. Dietis in underdeveloped countries are not as varied as in the United States and do not consist of food that enhances iron levels.
When he resigned Monday, Zimmerman became the fourth student to publicly announce his candidacy for the Senate's highest offices.
KEVIN WALKER, Webster Grove, Mo., junior, and David Tepopeorn, Vancouver, British Columbia, senior, filed at the office of student organizations in August with the intent to help Tepopeorn will run as president, and Tepopeorn will run as vice president on the Momentum Coalition ticket.
The resignation, Zimmerman said; would not affect his duties as off-campus senator or as a member of the finance committee.
Lisa Ashner, StudEx chairman, also filed last month with student organizations as president of the Consensus Coalition.
However, no candidates have actually filed at the Senate office for either the governor or for filing is 30 days before the election of the governor will be during the week of Nov. 15-18.
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