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Bee-ing Dumbledore

  • November 1, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

In Old English, a bumblebee was called a “dumbledore”! The United Kingdom has 25 species of bumblebee, out of about 250 known worldwide. Scientists say some species are threatened, partly because land where bee-attracting flowers once thrived is now used to grow crops.

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