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The authors explore how bees pro- duce the energy they need to fly and to provide heat to their young; bee anatomy; “superb impersonators of bees” that are really flies; and threats to bees from habitat loss, fragmenta- tion, and especially from pesticides— they should not be used at all. Read- ers learn the importance of planting pollinator gardens. Models include a restored former landfill in Guelph (Canada) where local native flowering wildflowers, shrubs, and trees “bloom successively throughout the seasons.” Although the vital importance of bees to our local food production is widely accepted, how does it make sense to continuously mow and de- stroy naturally emerging clover and
dandelions that feed the bees? Every- one should be aware of how those practices resulted from an intensive four-year public relations campaign conducted by the chemical industry in the 1950s. The campaign succeeded in convincing a majority of Americans to abandon their biodiverse clover yards for manicured and monocultured turf grass dependent on pesticides, such as DDT, the public was told were safe. It seems obvious that when their food is abundant, bee populations increase; while less available food will diminish their populations. It is just as important to be aware of the adverse impacts on the environment from the huge carbon footprint generated by practices used to maintain monocul- tured, manicured turf lawns.
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Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping Chesapeake BayWatershed U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; 82 pp. (PB); 2005; (www.nps.gov/plants/ pubs/chesapeake/) “Conservation landscaping reduces pollution and improves the local envi- ronment.” This “user-friendly” and in- formative publication contains lovely color photographs of diverse native plant species appropriate for the Bay watershed. The hope is that residents “will bypass overused, non-native ornamental plants” that can also be invasive. “Pour through this guide” to design spaces of any size.
nesters (some bees even build their nests underground), hole nesters, and carpenters. Feeding habits comprise foraging generalists versus those with floral specializations. To ensure their pollination, “species of flowering plants coevolve with certain bees. In the tropics, there are strictly nocturnal bees that navigate by moonlight” to perform their pollinator functions. Even the Arctic Circle has “a hardy little bee, the arctic bumble bee.”
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