Green Space: Attract native bees to the home garden

Bees are as much a symbol of summertime as beaches, boating and baseball. They can be seen working in flower beds, vegetable gardens, and yards all summer long.

Collecting nectar and pollen and helping to pollinate fields and gardens are what bees are designed to do. The benefits of bees are numerous especially when we chow down on delicious tomatoes or juicy apples.

Bees truly are the "backbone" of our daily lives......to read more: http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2009/06/25/community/doc4a438511b3173799059668.txt

Honey Bees Need Help....

For the second year, Haagen-Dazs ice cream is investing in research and leading a “Haagen-Dazs loves Honey Bees” campaign.

“More than half of the flavors in the Haagen-Dazs ice cream line require ingredients pollinated by honey bees,” says Ching-Yee Hu, Haagen-Dazs brand manager. So, they want to make sure honey bees are plentiful. “Anyone who cares about eating all-natural foods should care about the honey bees,” she says.

Hu suggests visiting their Web site for ways everyone can help the honey bees. For More Information: http://www.agweb.com/get_article.aspx?pageid=151376

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Honey bees are still disappearing

Brownfield Network reported on a recent survey by the Apiary Inspectors of America and the USDA shows we are still losing honey bees at an alarming rate. The survey found that from last September through this April we lost approximately 29 percent of our honey bee colonies. While that is a sobering number, it is actually a reduction from the 36 percent loss in 2007-2008 and the 32 percent loss in 2006-2007.

The survey checked on about 20 percent of the country's 2.3 million colonies. About 26 percent of apiaries surveyed reported that some of their colonies died of colony collapse disorder (CCD), down from 36 percent of apiaries in 2007-2008. There is still no known cause for CCD, the bees just disappears. A complete analysis of the data gathered will be published later this year.

Related Links:Read the survey

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