Become Bee Aware During National Pollinator Week
June 24, 2008 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Beneficial Insects, eco-friendly gardening
Sandy knows her holidays, and she sent me some important information on National Pollinator week.
The Pollinator Partnership declared June 22 to the 28th National Pollinator week to help raise awareness of the decline of bees and other pollinators. Honey bees have been hit especially hard in the last couple years with Bee Colony Collapse Disorder, which has devastated a large portion of the honey bee population.
The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign is releasing a set of guides over the next couple years to help people determine the best plants in their region to help pollinators thrive.
The main goal of the campaign is to make people more honey bee aware, and to help set up more natural habitats for the bees to thrive in.
The effort has two corporate sponsors, Burt’s Bees ™, and Haagen Daz’s(tm), hurray to these two corporations for doing something positive to help the bee and pollinator situation.
More on what you can do to help the honey bees.
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Linette, thanks for the link. I didn’t realize you had this post up or that I happened to write about bees during pollinator week : )
since bee colony collapse has come to s.w. fl. we have noticed that we seem to have a lot less imported and domestic fire ant mounds in our yards, may be we should look at this happening as part of the problem,,, thanks