Thank yous

Gretchen would like to thank the Bee Boys.

Jerry Rozen who took the time to teach a young botanist about bees.
Terry Griswold for being the best bee taxonomist around.
Rob Brooks for making me love catching bees.
Bob Minckley for always being at the other end of the phone.
Jim Cane for always having good solutions and really thinking about pollination.
Robbin Thorp for his book on bumble bees, good advice and always sharing what he knows about bee ecology in California.
Steve Buchmann for encouraging me to start working on bee conservation.
Sam Droege for always being willing to help, taking on the tough issues of identification and providing an example of living life well.
Mich for setting the standard of excellence and sharing all he knows in so many useful publications.
James Thomson for getting me started in biology and still answering questions almost twenty years later.
Laurence Packer, Bryan Danforth, John Ascher, Jack Neff - I learn something everytime we are together.
and Mark Reynolds for becoming an honorary Bee Boy.

Thanks to David Cohen for website design. You rock.