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Seeing sunflowers makes me smile. They are so bright and cheery. Now, however, I have even more of a reason to smile about sunflowers.
I had heard about the mysterious disappearance of the bees. As mentioned previously on this blog, Haagen-Daaz has done a good job spreading the news. They have a wealth of information on their Help the Honey Bees Site. Not surprisingly, most of their campaign revolves around buying ice cream. I love ice cream and support the cause, but what else could I do?
The Great Sunflower Project gives you a great opportunity to help out in another way. Sunflowers attract bees that subsequently pollinate the plants we eat. If you register by June 15, The Great Sunflower Project will send you sunflower seeds to plant in your garden. They then ask that you monitor the bees that visit your sunflowers. Don't worry, they make it easy by giving you lots of helpful hints on how to effectively monitor your backyard visitors. They will use your information to help get a big picture of the state of bees in urban areas.
Is it really bad to say at this point that bees scare me and I'm not sure I want extra bees in my yard? Probably, but I think saving fruits, vegetables, and one of the loves of my life, honey, wins out over my fear of bees. I also don't need to plant the sunflowers right next to my porch swing.
Check out The District Domestic for more on the plight of the honey bee and what you can do to help.
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6-06-2008 @4:03PM Hatshepsut said... I live in utter fear of bees, wasps and all things sting-y. However I love honey and hate that there is something killing off bees by the thousands every year. If I had an actual garden I would gladly plant some sunflowers...but I live in a townhome complex and our lawn service cares nothing for carefully planted anything. If it fits under the mower, it's getting cut down. And our evil landlord gets pissy when we put up those little wire garden borders.
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6-06-2008 @7:03PM Red Icculus said... I support the great sunflower project! I planted my seeds for this season and am going to report back if I see bees.
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6-12-2008 @11:08AM Jason Levine said... Hatshepsut, there's no reason to fear bees. I've done macro photography of bees many times (even one time during some bee mating). As long as you give the bee some space, you're fine. Remember, bees typically have one sting to use and then they die. If you could punch someone in the face, but then you would drop dead, you definitely wouldn't go around punching people. The only real time to fear bees is if the hive is involved. They will gladly use their stings to protect the hive.
Wasps on the other hand are nasty little creatures. Approach them with extreme caution (if at all).
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7-04-2008 @1:21PM jeremy westfall said... Sunflowers aren't the only way.. but it is a great effort.. other things that are small and can be planted anywhere can help.. like white clover.. bee's flourish with these small flowers.. they get alot of their nectar from these plants.. i love to eat.. and if the bee's die out.. other creatures will not be far behind.. leaving us oneday without any food.. people need to be educated more on this issue..
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