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Leave the Stems for the Stem-Nesting Bees
Image: Living Prairie Museum Remember that bees hibernate in stems during the winter! More information here https://sites.tufts.edu/polli...
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Plant native!
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Create a pollinator habitat in your own yard
Getty Images Here is a great article about sustainable landscaping https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1015382/sustainable-landscapinghe...
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Summer Long-Horned bee hotel
I have been checking every evening at sunset the Pozo Blue sage to see how many Summer Long-Horned male bees are sleeping on the dried...
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Summer Long Horned Bees sleeping
Late morning yesterday I discovered these two male Summer Long Horned bees sleeping on a dried flowerhead of one of the Pozo Blue sage...
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A lovely video about Maria Sibylla Merian
One of the most significant contributors to entomology.
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Sleeping Bee
This morning there were a lot of damp surfaces in the garden and on porch railings, remainders of our wonderful Bay Area fog. I decided...
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Big Bee Bonanza
Want to help? Community science-driven Big Bee Bonanza could use your help digitizing data from nearly 180,000 individual bee specimens...
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Summer Long-Horned Bees are back
Yay! They are back! Every year I plant sunflowers from seedlings for pollinators. And I have to admit that the main pollinators I have in...
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Gardeners have a very important role in the conservation and future of ecosystems and species
A must read! Let Douglas Tallamy inspire you to be part of the change! Read more here https://vnps.org/book-review-natures-best-hope-by-d...