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Busy Bees

Citizen netters helping science

Published online: Mar 17, 2019 Articles, East Idaho Weddings Kris Millgate
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The Piscitellas are retired, but in this moment they look as young as their grandchildren. Roger has the net. Leslie has the eyes. Together they’re creeping slowly through bushes trying to catch bees. The bumble kind. Not the honey kind.

“It can be hard to find the bees and it can be hard to catch them,” says Leslie Piscitella, Idaho Master Naturalist. “Doing the identifying of what we think it is isn’t easy either, but it’s fun being outside and trying to catch them.”

Read all about it in the 2019 edition of East Idaho Outdoors.


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