Plight of the Bumble Bees

Celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 22-28!
Sponsored by the US Geological Survey, Smithsonian Institution, National Biological Information Infrastructure, Pollinator Partnership, and Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

The USGS-NBII is co-sponsoring two events for pollinators: a public symposium, Plight of the Bumble Bees, on June 22 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The symposium will be followed by a two-day workshop in which world experts will discuss potential threats to bumble bees. For more information, visit http://pollinators.iabin.net/documents/PlightoftheBumbleBees09.pdf.

Host: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

Date:	Monday, June 22, 2009
Time:	10:30am - 1:00pm
Location:	Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Street:	10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
City/Town:	Washington, DC

(Photo: A bumble bee (Bombus spp.) forages for pollen on the flower of a musk or nodding thistle in an abandoned agricultural field. Photographer: Elizabeth A. Sellers, NBII)