Bee Species Rediscovered

American Voices

December 8, 2011 | ISSUE 47•49

Scientists from the University of California–Riverside announced they have rediscovered a bumblebee that was last seen in 1956. What do you think?

Talk to me about honey. How much of it is there and how sweet? With bees that's all I want to know.

Alex Marsh
Oxidizer
Two questions immediately arise. First, why were they so elusive for so long? Second, is there one on me?

Rich Hooper
Greenskeeper
Yeah, the Cockerell's bumblebee—sorry about that. They were trapped between my screen door and front door for a few decades, and I just recently got up the nerve to let the angry things out.

Janel Savage
Retired

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