[ExI] amateur entomology: was RE: instilling ambition

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Tomasz Rola
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>...OTOH, I am by no means entomologist...Regards, Tomasz Rola

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Nor am I, and that really bugs me.

About five years ago, I mentioned that I was observing unusually large
numbers of dead and dying bees on the pavement and sidewalk.  That was (I
think) in the 2007-2008 timeframe.  It wasn't nearly as bad in the following
years, until now.  This year is a good factor of 2 worse than the previous
worst year for bee deaths.  I am not including the one anomalous
observation, where there were hundreds of dead and dying bees on the street
and sidewalk which I observed on 1 January.  I collected about fifty of the
bees, and contacted a number of local entomologists to offer to send them
the dead bees for testing, but none of them had any real interest in it,
much to my surprise.

In any case, I still have the ~50 dead bees, if anyone knows anyone who
wants them.

spike