<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff">Interestingly, <u>a brief collection</u> of bees from tall thistle flowers in 2012 at a Kansas tall grass prairie during my MS thesis study showed that <i>Bombus pensylvanicus</i>  was the most abundant bumble bee (and second most abundant bee species). If interested, please refer to table 2 at the end of the pdf: <a href="https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/6417?show=full" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/6417?show=full</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff">Subodh</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:#0000ff">......................................................</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-transform:uppercase">SUBODH ADHIKARI</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, PhD</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Postdoctoral
Researcher</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> <br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">======================================================</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:14 AM David Inouye <<a href="mailto:dwinouye@gmail.com">dwinouye@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bumblebees-decline-pollinators-1.5106260" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bumblebees-decline-pollinators-1.5106260</a><br>
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Dr. David W. Inouye<br>
Professor Emeritus<br>
Department of Biology<br>
University of Maryland<br>
College Park, MD 20742-4415<br>
<a href="mailto:inouye@umd.edu" target="_blank">inouye@umd.edu</a><br>
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Principal Investigator<br>
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory<br>
PO Box 519<br>
Crested Butte, CO 81224<br>
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