Catching the buzz: Researchers key on honeybees
On a sunny September morning in Tucson, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman holds up a rectangular wooden frame that houses a colony of honeybees. The air buzzes as tiny winged speckles flutter about. “Oh, yeah. This is beautiful,” says DeGrandi-Hoffman, an entomologist and research leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. She raises…