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Letter: For the record

Published 6 February 2008

• The bee in the illustration to the article “Where have all the honeybees gone?” (22/29 December 2007, p 22) was not a honeybee, but a female solitary mining bee of the genus Colletes.

• We misnamed Kanav Kahol of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, who researched surgeons’ performance after playing games (19 January, p 24). Sorry.

• Burton on Trent is in Staffordshire, UK (15 December 2007, p 21).

Issue no. 2642 published 9 February 2008

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