Is Your Morning Coffee in Danger of Extinction? Our morning
coffee, tea, chocolate, fruits, vegetables, asparagus, broccoli, apples and
alfalfa need pollinators to survive. One in three bites of the food we eat
requires pollination. We can help save the bees by careful management of their habitat.
Plant a bee garden with different flowers including some
flat and tubular flowers. Plant so that you have flowers early spring to fall.
Plant flowering trees. Make a bee bath by using a small dish with rocks, twigs
and water.
Consider carefully your pesticide and herbicide use
(especially neonicotinoids which are particularly deadly to bees). Leave a
sunny spot of bare soil for native bees. Build a bee hotel. Let a portion of
your lawn go back to its roots, clover and dandelions are favorites for bees.
Consider replacing grass with flowers.
Limit fall cleanup by leaving leaves and not cutting back herbaceous
perennials.
Working together we can improve bee habitat in the Treasure Valley.
Learn more about other pollinators during Pollinator Week is June 22nd to 28th.
Working together we can improve bee habitat in the Treasure Valley.
Learn more about other pollinators during Pollinator Week is June 22nd to 28th.
