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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A">Interestingly, with the very obvious decline of feral honey bees in upstate NY, we have seen a huge increase in the observed populations of bumblebees. These
bees seem to be doing a fine job pollinating fruit trees as well as small fruit such as blueberries etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A">The commercial bee keeping lobby is a powerful force in Washington. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James, Rosalind<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 20, 2015 9:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kwong, Olivia; native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PCA] NEWS:You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">Most of the losses seem to be with bumble bees. Not a lot of losses have been found for the solitary bees, not that we have especially accurate measures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">The best documentation for bee declines are certain species of bumble bees. There are 49 species of bumble bees native to the US. Well, there were.
Now is probably 48. like Franklin’s Bumble bee in Oregon is probably extinct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D">Rosalind James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kwong, Olivia<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 19, 2015 9:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PCA] NEWS:You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gwen Pearson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date of Publication: 04.29.15.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Save the Bees!" is a common refrain these days, and it's great to see people interested in the little animals critical for our food supply around the globe. But I have one quibble: you're talking about the wrong bees.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Honey bees will be fine. They are a globally distributed, domesticated animal. Apis mellifera will not go extinct, and the species is not remotely threatened with extinction.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The bees you should be concerned about are the 3,999 other bee species living in North America, most of which are solitary, stingless, ground-nesting bees you've never heard of. Incredible losses in native bee diversity are already happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See the link above for the full article text.<o:p></o:p></p>
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