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Charles D. Michener (1918–2015): a life among the bees

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Isabel Alves dos Santos for the invitation to provide this brief retrospective of Mich’s life and work, and to an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments. Most importantly, I am grateful to Mich and his exemplary life – may we all be so bold and similarly so humble.

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  1. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, Lawrence, KS, 66045-4415, USA

    Michael S. Engel

  2. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, USA

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Engel, M.S. Charles D. Michener (1918–2015): a life among the bees. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 11, 243–247 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-017-9509-5

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