Bees
Massachusetts is home to approximately this many species of native bees?
What are 390 species?
This critically endangered whale species was the focus of MASSPIRG’s campaign because of threats like vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.
What is the North Atlantic right whale?
Students voted to create the First MASSPIRG chapter in this year.
When is 1972?
This 2009 building video game became the best-selling video game of all time.
What is Minecraft?
Native bees are critical in Massachusetts because they help do this to many plants and crops. Including fruit like blueberries and cranberries.
What is pollination?
Scientists estimate there are only about this many North Atlantic right whales left in the wild today?
What is fewer than 350 whales?
The first MASSPIRG Chapter was created here.
Where is Amhurst?
This sea creature has three hearts, blue blood, and sometimes punches fish.
What is an octopus?
In addition to pesticides and habitat loss, this global environmental issue is altering bloom times and threatening native bee survival.
What is climate change?
Despite their massive size (up to 50 feet long) right whales primarily feed on these tiny shrimp-like crustaceans.
What are zooplankton (copepods)?
There are this many chapters in MASSPIRG.
What are 10 chapters?
This 1997 movie directed by James Cameron became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
What is Titanic?
One major reason native bees are declining in Massachusetts is the loss of this type of habitat, often replaced by lawns and development.
What is native wildflower habitat (or natural habitat)?
North Atlantic right whales are especially linked to Massachusetts because they migrate through and feed in these coastal waters in winter and spring.
What is Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts coastal waters?
MASSPIRG helped win this amount of money in state funding for the Hunger Free Campus Initiative which provides resources to public colleges and universities to eliminate food insecurity.
What is 1 million dollars?
This animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they can contaminate crime scenes.
What is a koala?
This widely used class of insecticides, often talked about in campaigns like Save the Bees, is harmful to native bees and was restricted for consumer use in Massachusetts.
What are neonicotinoids (neonics)?
Whalers gave right whales their name because they were considered the “right” whale to hunt due to this unfortunate characteristic after death.
What is they float when killed?
In 1981, MASSPIRG won the passage of this bill that aided in recycling and the reduction of litter in Massachusetts.
What is the Bottle Bill?
In 1518, a “dancing plague” broke out in this European country, where hundreds of people reportedly danced uncontrollably for days.
What is France?