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<DIV><EM>Thanks to John Ascher for this.</EM></DIV>
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<DIV>Here's an article on bumble bee declines in the Earth Island
Institute<BR>Journal:<BR><BR>http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/<BR>plight_of_the_bumblebee/<BR><BR>John<BR><BR>--
<BR>John S. Ascher, Ph.D.<BR>Bee Database Project Manager<BR>Division of
Invertebrate Zoology<BR>American Museum of Natural History<BR>Central Park West
@ 79th St.<BR>New York, NY 10024-5192<BR>work phone: 212-496-3447<BR>mobile
phone: 917-407-0378<BR></DIV>
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