Help the Bees (and other pollinators)

The bee crisis is something that is affecting everyone and everywhere but the is hope! You can do many things to help pollinators, including the bees, have plenty to eat by providing a rich array of chemical-free nutrition, provide shelter for pollinators and help researchers track pollinators.

For bees, variety is the spice of life!

If you want to part of the solution rather than part of the problem you can start right here....

Gardening for Wildlife

A garden can be a few flowers on an apartment balcony or acres of land. The size is not what matters it's the thought and effort you put into it.

You can garden for wildlife especially pollinators by providing four simple but essential things:  food, shelter, water and protection.

You can even certify your garden with the National Wildlife Federation certification.

Bee Gardens

There's an app for that!
BeeSmart app 

Bee Smart™ Pollinator Gardener’s  app is an easy use data base of 1,00 native plants that are bee and pollinator friendly.

Features : •  1,000 native pollinator friendly plants for the United States.
• Customizable plant lists
• Region specific plant lists
• Many options including, perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, and vines .
• A search option for plant names.
•  Plant images.

Retrieved: from http://pollinator.org/beesmartapp.htm

Do you want to do more?
  Become a citizen scientist, it fun, free and easy!

Citizen science helps scientist out by collecting simple data that they used for larger projects including helping out honey bees.

 Check out some bee and pollinator projects on the next post.