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Pollinators - Bees
3:43 pm
Fri May 11, 2012

New Missouri initiative looks to create buzz about bees

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Credit Ed Spevak/Saint Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoo’s Ed Spevak found this blueberry bee at the Missouri Botanical Garden on March 25. It is the first blueberry bee recorded in Saint Louis since the 1930s.
Credit Véronique LaCapra
These honey bee hives are located at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. MOBOT is one of several local partners participating in “The Great Missouri Buzz Off.”
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The Missouri Department of Agriculture is launching a new initiative to try to create some buzz about bees.

Agriculture Director Jon Hagler says “The Great Missouri Buzz Off” aims to educate Missourians about bees and beekeeping.

“Whether it be honeybees, or native bees, they’re so vital to our agriculture’s success, and to our horticulture’s success, and we have such amazing resources here in our state,” Hagler said.

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