Activities aim for education on importance of area's bees
By Tim Mitchell
Saturday June 21, 2008
Amro Zayed
Pollinator Week, which begins Sunday, focuses on the future of the bumble bee (Bombus grisecollis).
URBANA – You might want to think twice before you swat that honey bee buzzing around your backyard.
Adult honey bees have been disappearing on a massive scale due to a mysterious phonomenon called colony collapse disorder, according to May Berenbaum, head of the University of Illinois entomology department.
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