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Zawislak returning to UARM to talk bees
INSIDE:
By Ethan Nahté
Read Across America
Pages 12-13
Alrubaye To Visit UARM
Page 4
Tournament Results
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Spring is almost here and it’s time for things to begin blooming, which means pollen. Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants depend on pollinators to reproduce. Those pollinators: Butterflies, moths, birds, bats, beetles and other insects. Then there’s the honey bee. More than 80% of pollination of many of our cultivated crops is performed by the honey bee. There are 4000-plus species of bees native to North America, and they contribute to the production of many billions of dollar’s worth of crops every year. John Zawislak, assistant professor
Assistant professor of entomology John Zawislak will be talking on the Biology and Management of Bee Swarms on March 14 at the Ouachita Center.
See BEES continued on page 2
Elvis was getting ‘Wild in the Country’
Article and photos by Ethan Nahté (Part 1 of 2)
There are certain moments in history that people can recall exactly where they were when tragic news came across the airwaves or in black and white print, be it Pearl Harbor, the assassination of JFK, and the death of the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley. Even during Presley’s life there were imitators as early as 1954. Now the number is in the tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of imitators
See ELVIS continued on page 14