Posts Tagged: bee gardens

Bee Mine

How to celebrate Valentine's Day? Well, without pollinators, we wouldn't be celebrating Valentine's Day as we know it. That box of chocolates? Give thanks to the midges that pollinated the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao.  That bouquet of mixed...

Honey bee foraging on a pansy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee foraging on a pansy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee foraging on a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee foraging on a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Remembering the Wild Bees

Native bee enthusiast Celeste Ets-Hokin of the Bay Area is on a mission: she wants residents to provide habitat for wild bees, including bumble bees, sweat bees, miner bees, mason bees, digger bees and long-horned bees. Earlier this year she came out...

"Wild Bee Gardens" is the first known conservation app for North American native bees.

"Wild Bee Gardens" is the first known conservation app for North American native bees

A sunflower bee foraging on an echinacea flower. (Photo by Celeste Ets-Hokin)

A sunflower bee foraging on an echinacea flower. (Photo by Celeste Ets-Hokin)

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