Where did it get started? What were the circumstances that led its focus to bees, and what are some of the key milestones that shaped the lab into what it is today?

Mm-hmm.

I, I'll truncate a lot.

So I've been working almost 50 years here at Patuxent, and my theme has been design, development, and running of different kinds of monitoring programs for different groups.

Originally birds, and then it evolved as I went to a now-defunct agency called the National Biological Survey.

Those were the scientists from the Department of Interior agency.

So I was Fish and Wildlife originally.

We have, that gives context of how many we are still backlogged on, but over 500,000, um, was, um, in that last push up to GBA.