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The trouble with bumblebees

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A survey of bumblebees in North America provides unequivocal evidence that four previously common and abundant species have undergone recent and widespread population collapse. Various explanations remain possible.

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  1. Mark J. F. Brown is in the School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. mark.brown@rhul.ac.uk ,

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