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Recovery: Bringing Back Bumble Bees

By dave
July 24, 2017

Bees are in big trouble. The good news is that virtually all ecologically literate North Americans will tell you that. The bad news is they’re worried about the wrong bees — honey bees.

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Jul 30, 2017 6:42 AM CST
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Name: Archivesgirl
Salisbury, MD (Zone 7b)
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I just looked at a new study out of Michigan re the reasons for declining populations of Bumble Bees in urbanized settings and it's fascinating. It makes us think about "shrinking" cities, etc. This is a full article from PubMed PLoS. It's easily read:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

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