Can You Help the Honey Bee? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 947279 Germany 04/19/2010 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The answer is most emphatically yes. Quoting: Leebee 947165Let’s start with something simple. Bees collect nectar and pollen from plants for food. They make honey from the nectar. Pollen is their sole protein source (honey bees are vegetarians) and they use it to make food for their young. Most of the important bee plants in the northeast are wildflowers. Of these, probably the single most valuable early spring wildflower is the dandelion. If a hive survives the winter, beekeepers know the bees will be safe from starvation if they can stay alive until dandelions bloom. Dandelion pollen is moderately nutritious and the nectar is abundant. It doesn’t normally produce what we call a ‘surplus’, i.e. enough nectar to produce honey above and beyond what the bees will use for themselves, so you won’t generally see dandelion honey for sale, but it gives the bees a huge boost and adds to the health and wellbeing of the hive. So a very simple, easy way to help honey bees is to refrain from killing the dandelions in your lawn. They’re actually quite pretty. And next time you see a bare patch, think about planting Dutch clover instead of grass. The bees thrive on various weeds in lawns, including clover and plantain (from which they collect pollen). Do you really have to have that perfect, manicured, chemical-laden lawn? Along the same vein, several of the landowners at various locations where I keep bees are kind enough to not mow their lawns while dandelions and other bee plants like clover are blooming. They wait until the bees seem to have moved onto other flowers. [link to www.gooserockfarm.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 835530 United States 04/19/2010 01:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not to mention that the dandelion is one of the single most nutritious herbs on the planet. You can use every single part of it. The greens are way more nutritious than spinach. The root can be used for coffee, tea or extract. Form a relationship with the dandelion, they are good friends. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 947279 Germany 04/19/2010 01:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The answer is most emphatically yes. Quoting: Leebee 947165Let’s start with something simple. Bees collect nectar and pollen from plants for food. They make honey from the nectar. Pollen is their sole protein source (honey bees are vegetarians) and they use it to make food for their young. Most of the important bee plants in the northeast are wildflowers. Of these, probably the single most valuable early spring wildflower is the dandelion. If a hive survives the winter, beekeepers know the bees will be safe from starvation if they can stay alive until dandelions bloom. Dandelion pollen is moderately nutritious and the nectar is abundant. It doesn’t normally produce what we call a ‘surplus’, i.e. enough nectar to produce honey above and beyond what the bees will use for themselves, so you won’t generally see dandelion honey for sale, but it gives the bees a huge boost and adds to the health and wellbeing of the hive. So a very simple, easy way to help honey bees is to refrain from killing the dandelions in your lawn. They’re actually quite pretty. And next time you see a bare patch, think about planting Dutch clover instead of grass. The bees thrive on various weeds in lawns, including clover and plantain (from which they collect pollen). Do you really have to have that perfect, manicured, chemical-laden lawn? Along the same vein, several of the landowners at various locations where I keep bees are kind enough to not mow their lawns while dandelions and other bee plants like clover are blooming. They wait until the bees seem to have moved onto other flowers. [link to www.gooserockfarm.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 526155 Canada 04/19/2010 01:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit so this lawn crap I see advertised every 25 minutes on the telly is killing them as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 825212In Quebec they outlawed lawn chemicals. DuPont is even suing them over it, fuckers. It's time to put an end to "better living thru chemistry". |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 947165 United Kingdom 04/19/2010 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit so this lawn crap I see advertised every 25 minutes on the telly is killing them as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 526155In Quebec they outlawed lawn chemicals. DuPont is even suing them over it, fuckers. It's time to put an end to "better living thru chemistry". yes, it's silly, when will man learn that he can not do better than nature can?! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 913496 United States 04/19/2010 01:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm doing what I can. I don't put chemicals on my plants. I have some dandelions, and a number of other flowers. Last year we had tons of bees and our flowers were beautiful. This year we have no bees. Well, I've seen four or five retarded dazed looking bees, and they were flying around aimlessly and not pollinating anything. The problem here isn't a lack of flowers. The beautiful flowers are dying, unfertilized. It's a lack of bees. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 843398 Canada 04/20/2010 06:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit so this lawn crap I see advertised every 25 minutes on the telly is killing them as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 526155In Quebec they outlawed lawn chemicals. DuPont is even suing them over it, fuckers. It's time to put an end to "better living thru chemistry". similar ban in ontario for a couple of years now. don't mind the weeds and the birds are happy about it too. see if you can get permission to keep hives on the roof of the apartment building? many hotels and condos are getting in on the action.. there's an urban beekeepers co-op here, maybe one in quebec/montreal too? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 862967 Australia 04/20/2010 08:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If bees die so do we. Simple Quoting: Anonymous Coward 945283No actually thats a very simplistic outlook right there. We, and bees, have changed throughout millions of years. We are still changing. Not as far as I have read, and its alot more than I have ever seen posted on GLP, and alot more than what others seem to know about it. For simplicity sake, if honey bees die out, the vast majority of us will die out, that's not something I am going to enter into discussion with you. Yes we've changed through millions of years but not in conditions such as these, and not with a population like this where the effects will be devastating due to a larger demand for the same small food supply. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 772130 United States 04/20/2010 09:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If bees die so do we. Simple Quoting: Anonymous Coward 945283No actually thats a very simplistic outlook right there. We, and bees, have changed throughout millions of years. We are still changing. I guess this person is smarter than Albert Einstein who is quoted as saying... . "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 750976 United States 04/20/2010 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If bees die so do we. Simple Quoting: Anonymous Coward 862967No actually thats a very simplistic outlook right there. We, and bees, have changed throughout millions of years. We are still changing. Not as far as I have read, and its alot more than I have ever seen posted on GLP, and alot more than what others seem to know about it. For simplicity sake, if honey bees die out, the vast majority of us will die out, that's not something I am going to enter into discussion with you. Yes we've changed through millions of years but not in conditions such as these, and not with a population like this where the effects will be devastating due to a larger demand for the same small food supply. The bees dieing out would kill us with them. There is no question about it. |
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