The Daily Green offers Five Ways to Bolster the Bees and Five Ways Kids Can “Save Our Bees” to help make the world a better, safer, healthier place for all our essential pollinators.
Suggestions are varied — from planting more bee-friendly forage plants in our garden, to cutting back on the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Garden mulch — which seems so harmless at first glance — can discourage the native bees who need to burrow into the soil to make their homes, something that many of us wouldn’t have considered.
For more news and information about how to help bees (including a regular column by Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine), visit TheDailyGreen.com.
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