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Oh those leafcutter bees!

April 15, 2015November 16, 2019 By: seswanberg

A Garden Mystery Solved (previously published in the Green Valley News and Sahuarita Sun – reprinted with permission) Every spring in the Sonoran Desert a

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A Lethal Dose

January 28, 2015January 12, 2020 By: seswanberg

Scientists who work with toxic substances, as well as people who keep (or whose family members keep) venomous animals are (or should be) familiar with

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