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A new version of the Very Handy Bee Manual is now online, replacing the
version of June 2009. This manual provides guidance on the capture, monitoring,
identification, and curation of native bees. </font><font size=3>
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You can download the pdf at:</font><font size=3> <br>
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The pdf and Word document at:</font><font size=3> <br>
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Both documents via ftp at:</font><font size=3> </font><font size=3 color=blue><u><br>
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Lots of new additions so please replace you old manuals.</font><font size=3>
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Additions and corrections always welcome.</font><font size=3> <br>
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Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov
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w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
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The Identification of Grasses</font><font size=3> <br>
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A grass can be "glumey" in more ways than one,</font><font size=3>
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When its classification remains to be done;</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
You pull off the parts, and soon feel your age</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
Chasing them over the microscope stage!</font><font size=3> <br>
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You peer through the lenses at all of the bracts</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
And hope your decisions agree with the facts;</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
While you oculist chortles with avid delight</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
As you strain both your eyes in the dim table light.</font><font size=3>
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You are left on the horns of quite a dilemma</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
When you count the nerves on the back of the lemma;</font><font size=3>
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Then you really get snoopy and turn each on turtle</font><font size=3>
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To see if the flower is sterile or fertile.</font><font size=3> <br>
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And then the compression, no problem is meaner -</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
Is it flat like your wallet or round like a wiener?</font><font size=3>
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"How simple," you think, "for a mind that is keen"-</font><font size=3>
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But what do you do when it's half-way between?</font><font size=3> <br>
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You probe and you guess how the florets will shatter,</font><font size=3>
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For you know later on it is certain to matter;</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
You long for the calmness of labor that's manual</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
When the question arises-"perennial" or "annual"?</font><font size=3>
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And that terrible texture, the meanest of all,</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
Is one of the pitfalls in which you can fall;</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="SimHei"><br>
"Cartilaginous" maybe-or is it "chartaceous"?</font><font size=3>
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Has even the experts exclaiming "Good gracious!"</font><font size=3>
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Then you wail as you wade through the long tribal key,</font><font size=3>
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"Oh, why must his awful thing happen to me?"</font><font size=3>
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"Grasses are easy," our teacher declares,</font><font size=3>
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As he mops off a brow that is crowned with gray hairs!</font><font size=3>
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H.D. Harrington</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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P</font><font size=2 color=#008000> <b>Bees are not optional</b></font><font size=1 color=#008000><b>.</b></font>
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