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<p style="border-bottom: 7px solid #00a481"><b>Janet Ritz: The Plight of the Bumblebee</b></p>
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With all the focus on the <a href="http://www.the-environmentalist.com/2007/08/its-official-honeybees-are-gone.html">disappearance of the honeybee</a>, there has not been as much discussion regarding the plight of the bumblebee, one of the hardest workers in the wild world of agriculture, despite <a href="http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11761">this warning</a> issued by the National Academy of Sciences in October of 2006 That may now change as word comes from scientists that at least one bumblebee species from the Northwestern U.S., Franklin's Bumblebee, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21193772/">may have gone extinct</a>
This is a serious development Not only because the loss of any species due to human activity is, in this writer's opinion, unconscionable, but because we depend on this species more than we've taken the time to understand ...
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