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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks to Patricia S. De Angelis for forwarding the below:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 color="#33302d" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#33302D'>Tiny radio
transmitters track flight of tropical orchid bees</span></font> <br>
<i><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;
font-style:italic'>Scientific American </span></font></i><br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>May
27, 2010</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>By
Katherine Harmon</span></font> <br>
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<font size=2 color="#33302d" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;color:#33302D'>Rare </span></font><a
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=virus-ravages-orchids"><font
size=2 color="#0aa1dd" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:#0AA1DD'>tropical orchids</span></font></a><font size=2
color="#33302d" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:#33302D'> can be few and far between in the wild, often separated by
spotty landscape and human-made obstacles. But powerful tropical orchid </span></font><a
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=buzz-on-bees"><font
size=2 color="#0aa1dd" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:#0AA1DD'>bees</span></font></a><font size=2 color="#33302d"
face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#33302D'>
do the leg—or wing—work, flying great distances to pollinate
isolated flowers and keep the flora gene pool fres</span></font><font size=2
face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>h.</span></font>
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<font size=2 color="#33302d" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;color:#33302D'>Just how far and where exactly these bees
fly, however, has remained relatively obscure to researchers. Some studies had
tracked bees by marking them and using bait </span></font><a
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=sneaky-orchid-drives-wasps-wild-09-08-06"><font
size=2 color="#0aa1dd" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:#0AA1DD'>flowers to lure them in</span></font></a><font size=2
color="#33302d" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:#33302D'> for counting or by scouting out specific flowers that bees
appeared to return to. But these results have created only a rough sketch of
the range and routes of these bees. </span></font><br>
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<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Full
story:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=tiny-radio-transmitters-track-fligh-2010-05-27</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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