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Our Honey Bees are now on the endangered species list.
Without them humans will probably not survive.
What can we do? Plant organically?
Anyone mindful of the bees? Any bee keepers out there?
First thing is to stay away from big box stores when buying plants. They are treated with all kinds of bad stuff. They are coming around, but you still need to read the labels on each and every plant they sell. Use a reliable garden center who is in tune with nature's critters. Do your homework. Lastly, chemicals are a last resort. If you build up your garden areas with a good compost, and mulch, chances are you won't need any of those synthetic chemicals that abound in the lawn threads. Bees like yellow and purple flowers the most. Coreopsis, sage, and the like will bring them in. If you don't have them room, you can plant low growing sunflowers, which honey bees love to no end.
HD would be wise to run a blitz of ads showing what they are doing to help save nature's critters. Many weekend gardeners do not have a clue, or just don't care as long as their garden looks pretty.
I don't know about honey bees but if you want bumble bees, plant some ajuga. I planted some for ground cover which is now covered in purple blooms and the bumblebees are everywhere. Must have been a couple of dozen out there this morning.
I plant zinnias , sunflowers , poppies , coreopsis , fragrant mix which includes dianthus , poppies and it looks really pretty and the bees and butterflies come every year and do their thing and I try and use all natural stuff like coffee grounds , potato peels , Epsom salts and put all that into the garden in a hole and cover it up and let it stew and you will have the prettiest flowers you have ever seen ,,,
Feed them. Honey bees are invasive species, but native bee populations plainly have little to eat in the landscape of corn fields, toxic lawns and suburban trees of negligible to none wildlife value. That is simply sickening to see every patch of land spared by corn and lawns sterilized into suburban like aesthetics anyway. We need weeds, bio diversity, and local laws and ordinances are such as to promote suburban upscale aesthetics everywhere. Whatever lifeform is not killed by soy and corn it is starved by obsessive mowing and poisoning.
^^^yes
Scares me that people would rather have that perfect looking (aka fake) lawn than to worry about killing off such a critical species.
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