[Pollinator] Bee biology reprint available online

[Matthew Shepherd (Xerces Society)]

For those of you interested in learning more about native bee biology, I discovered that The Biology and External Morphology of Bees by Stephen, Bohart, & Torchio (1969) is now available online. You can download a PDF (12MB) from Oregon State University library's Oregon Explorer website, http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/29.

Although the taxonomy and ID keys may be out-of-date, I think the biology information still gives a good overview of many genera.

Matthew
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