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With the summer monsoons bringing much-needed rain to the Old Pueblo, calls and identification requests are pouring into the University of Arizona Department of Entomology. And that s not surprising, said
Gene Hall, who oversees the University of Arizona Insect Collection and provides insect and other arthropod identifications as part of the Cooperative Extension s Insect Diagnostics Clinic. This is one of the first summers in probably three years that we ve had a lot of good rain, and that means our bugs are out in big numbers.
Arizona is home to one of the most biologically diverse populations of insects in the country, according to Hall. In the university s 2 million-specimen collection, more than 20,000 species are from the Sonoran Desert.
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On Thursday, the United Nations celebrates one of the hardest workers on the planet: bees.
So to celebrate World Bee Day, WLRN’s Jenny Staletovich talked to another hard worker: a bee researcher who’s been living at a 5,000-acre research station in Central Florida studying rare bees.
A couple million years ago, the area around the Lake Wales ridge near Lake Placid was a sandy beach, overlooking the ocean.
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Outdoor retailer REI calls climate change “the largest existential threat facing our members’ enjoyment of life outdoors and the survival of REI Co-op.” The company has pledged to cut its planet-warming emissions in half over the next decade, roughly in line with the commitment made by President Biden at an Earth Day summit Thursday.
But that isn’t stopping REI from using its eco-friendly image to help Ford promote gas-guzzling SUVs.
In a series of ads and videos sponsored by the carmaker, the latest of which was released this week, REI chronicles the journey of four cyclists traversing a 220-mile route through Arizona known as the Sky Islands Odyssey. The videos feature plenty of glamour shots and praise of Ford’s Bronco Sport as it accompanies the bikers through off-road desert terrain, loaded with gear.
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