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People should look at their local American Chestnut groves.</p>
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Yesterday I visited a 15/16ths Am. Chestnut planting. There were mature trees blooming and I collected about 50 or so bee specimens. Among the ones present were about 5-6
<i>A. rehni </i>(males and females). I think it is becoming clearer that this is indeed a
<i>Castenae </i>specialist (both American Chestnut and Chinquapin). It is not clear if<span style="display: inline"><span> </span>they use pure Chinese Chestnuts.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px">So, those of you in the East, take a look at any Chestnut plantings now for these beautiful little bees.</p>
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<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px">Glory be to God for dappled things---</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow;</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px">Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> Landscape plotted and pieced---fold, fallow, and plough;</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px">All things counter, original, spare, strange;</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> with swift, slow; sweet, sour, adazzle, dim;</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px">He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> Praise him.</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-size: 12px"> -Gerard Manley Hopkins</span></span></div>
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