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6. You don't need to keep honey bees to have good pollination .... native pollinators (wasps, bees, ...

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 11:03 AM

Oct 2021

... flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, and so on) can do the job. And whatever you do to help protect our native pollinators
will also help protect the honeybees too. The more natives you have the more native pollinators you will have. Smooth
Sumac, Button Bush, Snowberry/Coral Berry, and elderberry are all excellent native shrubs

This is a wonderful resource. Sometimes you don't have to make a man made structure to help the bees.

Thistle is a non native invasive pest. (Outside of Field Thistle.) I support the careful use of chemicals to control it
and the replacing it with a native.

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thanks for this. just shared it mopinko Oct 2021 #1

FYI Wild Bee Conservation / A home grown national park Botany Oct 2021 #3

i really need to get around to making a bee hotel. mopinko Oct 2021 #5

You don't need to keep honey bees to have good pollination .... native pollinators (wasps, bees, ... Botany Oct 2021 #6

yeah, i think i will have to. unless i can get some goats in here. mopinko Oct 2021 #8

Round up doesn't really work on thistle. It just burns the plant and maybe the top few inches of .. Botany Oct 2021 #9

yeah, i agree. mopinko Oct 2021 #10

The best course is to get the goats to munch the thistle and when they are gone the thistle .... Botany Oct 2021 #11

thanks. mopinko Oct 2021 #12

I love bumblebees Farmer-Rick Oct 2021 #2

I love to watch bumble bees "buzz pollinate"* VA Bluebells in the early spring Botany Oct 2021 #4

Support Project Wingspan WestMichRad Oct 2021 #7