▲ 744 ▼ Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com) submitted 1 year ago by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Preaching to the choir. The windshield thing is what originally brought home the scope of this disaster. We travel from Florida to Tupelo several times a year. 700 mile round trip through the South, never had to clean bugs, not once. Imagine that. I'm letting our yard go largely wild, and in any case we've loaded up with flowers. We have several tiny ponds, 15G-150G, that are all natural that are breeding frogs and dragonflies. They also act as mosquito traps because the fish and tadpoles, and hopefully dragonfly larva, eat the babies. At our 2.5 acre camp in the boonies I've been trying to get flowers in there. Dumped a 5G bucket of crepe myrtle seeds last fall, not sure any took. LOL, mostly failing on that project. I want to get some hives going, but there just can't be enough flowers around in most seasons. I'm trying man. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago Preaching to the choir. The windshield thing is what originally brought home the scope of this disaster. We travel from Florida to Tupelo several times a year. 700 mile round trip through the South, never had to clean bugs, not once. Imagine that. I'm letting our yard go largely wild, and in any case we've loaded up with flowers. We have several tiny ponds, 15G-150G, that are all natural that are breeding frogs and dragonflies. They also act as mosquito traps because the fish and tadpoles, and hopefully dragonfly larva, eat the babies. At our 2.5 acre camp in the boonies I've been trying to get flowers in there. Dumped a 5G bucket of crepe myrtle seeds last fall, not sure any took. LOL, mostly failing on that project. I want to get some hives going, but there just can't be enough flowers around in most seasons. I'm trying man. permalink fedilink source parent