How to Beautify a Bee

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Eric Molinsky
The New Yorker Radio Hour | Sep 2, 2016

Melody Doering, a curatorial assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, spends a few days a week washing, drying, and primping bee carcasses so they look as good as new. The New Yorker contributor Laura Parker accompanied Doering as she prepared three specimens in the entomology department’s collection.

 

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