To bee or not to bee Maine pollinator study grows
Maine launches the Maine Bumblebee Atlas a five year citizen science project with a $50 000 budget to count native bumblebees and assess their range and abundance Volunteers including bankers teachers students and retirees have joined 106 signed up with another 150 queued The effort aims to protect crops like blueberries cranberries and tomatoes valued at about 250 million annually amid worries over habitat loss pesticides and climate change.
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