Disappearing Bees: How you can help protect our native pollinators

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Disappearing Bees: How you can help protect our native pollinators

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The bees in the University of Rhode Island's (URI) historic insect collection are old. "So this bee right here was collected in 1948 in South Kingstown," said Casey Johnson, URI Bee Lab's research associate. "From Great Swamp in 1946, a little worker Bombus terricola," Johnson added after reading another label in the collection. "You can go to Great Swamp, and if you were there in 1946, you could have seen this spe…