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Sunflower with native bee

California farmers depend on bees to pollinate the state's multi-million dollar fruit and nut crops, but last season thousands of bee colonies disappeared around the country. Meet two Northern California researchers looking for ways to make sure we always have bees to pollinate our crops.

Watch the companion KQED TV piece on the QUEST website and discuss it in the QUEST Science Blog.

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items are from between 22 May 2007 & 16 Jul 2007.

Sunflower with native bee
Microphones and bee nets don't mix
Bee collecting pollen
And action....
Purple Pollen
Keep your eye on the target
Coming in for a landing
Dangling Bee
Big Bee, Small Poppy
Hide and Seek in the Poppy
Honey Bee in California Poppy
Coming at ya!
Bee in a Bud
Bees like poppies
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii)
Bee Taxonomy
Study Bee Hive at U.C. Davis
Up close and personal
Yellow on Yellow
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii).
Take Off!

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