Bumblebee Decline Confirmed Across U.S.  
4 January 2011

> A large survey of bumblebees in the United States shows that several species have declined substantially over the past 2 to 3 decades, verifying the suspicions of scientists who have seen local populations disappear. "We've lost a lot of bees. There are whole regions where we can't find them any more," says entomologist Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/bumblebee-decline-confirmed-acro.html

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