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In 1936, Helen Rodeck collected this mason bee (Hoplitis albifrons) likely at what is now the CU Mountain Research Station in Nederland, Colorado, about 23 miles from ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø’s main campus. Helen was married to Hugo G. Rodeck (BioChem’28; MA’29), who became the long-serving director of CU’s Museum of Natural History three years later. The museum’s entomology curator of nearly 30 years, Urless Lanham (Btny, Zool’40), identified this bee in 1939.

CU research associate Adrian Carper found this specimen again as part of his National Science