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A scientist's aim: Save the bees

Marla Spivak, a superstar researcher at the University of Minnesota, has become one of the country's leading champions for bees. Now she's fighting for their survival.

By Josephine Marcotty

January 15, 2015 at 8:14PM

(Dave Braunger/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

about the writer

Josephine Marcotty

Reporter

Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.