<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">All:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">John Ascher and I will be teaching a
course on Native Bees in June this year in Connecticut. While only
2 days long we hope to give participants an introduction to the identification
and monitoring of native bee populations in the East. On one of the
days we will be out in the field looking for populations of rare Colletes,
Macropis, Melitta, and Epeoloides (which showed up last year or the one
prior to that in the same area).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The flyer for the workshop is attached.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sam</font>
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Sam Droege Sam_Droege@USGS.GOV
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w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624<br>
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center<br>
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705<br>
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bees</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You voluble,<br>
Velvety<br>
Vehement fellows<br>
That play on your<br>
Flying and<br>
Musical cellos,<br>
All goldenly<br>
Girdled you<br>
Serenade clover,<br>
Each artist in<br>
Bass but a<br>
Bibulous rover!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You passionate,<br>
Powdery<br>
Pastoral bandits,<br>
Who gave you your<br>
Roaming and<br>
Rollicking mandates?<br>
Come out of my<br>
Foxglove; come<br>
Out of my roses<br>
You bees with the<br>
Plushy and<br>
Plausible noses!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> -- Norman Rowland Gale</font>
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