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82 IN THIS ISSUE Summer 2021...continued


62 Rusty Patched Bumble Bees Will they get critical habitat status?


by Andy Carstens


66 Beewildered Companions Film review


by Mark Winston


72 Pollinators Flit Back Against Climate Change Their role in carbon sequestration by Jeff Ollerton


77 Social Buzz Botanical Artist Shevaun Doherty


by Joan Fox


82 Top 10 Plants for the Southeast How to attract pollinators


by Rachel Campbell


88 What’s Bugging The western leafcutter bee


by Rusty Burlew


92 Garden Inspiration Start painting what you grow


by Anne Butera


99 Seeds The currency of ecological restoration


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