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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Following Honeybee Disappearance, Bumblebees Begin Vanishing Act
  • Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:43:36 -0400


Following Honeybee Disappearance, Bumblebees Begin Vanishing Act

Tuesday, October 09, 2007
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299982,00.html>

*GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer
find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in
northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.*
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299982,00.html>

Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of
California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote
mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains, but hasn't been able to locate
any this year. <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299982,00.html>

He fears that the species — Franklin's bumblebee — has gone extinct
before anyone could even propose it for the endangered species list. To
make matters worse, two other bumblebee species — one on the East coast,
one on the West — have gone from common to rare.
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299982,00.html>

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C299982%2C00.html





  • [permaculture] Following Honeybee Disappearance, Bumblebees Begin Vanishing Act, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 10/11/2007

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