When a sick bee visits a flower they may leave behind some infective parasitic spores
This photo was taken during the early days of the COVID-19 quarantine when only essential trips like grocery shopping, or foraging for pollen and nectar at flowers, were permitted. Did you know that when bees forage at flowers they might get sick? When a sick bee visits a flower they may leave behind some infective parasitic spores; the next time a bee visits that same flower---bad news.
Maybe if the bees had proper social safety nets, public health infrastructure, and a more conscionable distribution of work in the colony, the public health crisis that is disease-driven-pollinator-decline would be no more…
This honeybee and hundreds more were frequent visitors of the Texas Native Wildflower garden in my front yard. It is really amazing how many bees visit these flowers every day! Planting native flowering plants is one of the best ways you can promote bee conservation at home.
Be sure your bees have somewhere to call home too. Up to 80% of bees nest in the ground, while others build nests above ground in wood, stone, and even empty snail shells! Leave some bare ground open for nesting or place a ‘bee hotel’ of nesting tubes somewhere close by.
Planting native flowering plants is on of the best ways you can promote bee conservation at home
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