Comments on: Flowers for Bees: Make a Bee Friendly Garden

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:37:13 +0000

Hi Gail,

How Brilliant and thanks for the tip on the American Meadows seeds! That’s so good to know. I’m sure your meadow is just lovely! What part of the country are you in?

By: Gail Flitcraft

Gail Flitcraft — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:24:25 +0000

All of American Meadows seeds are neonicotinoid free. (I don’t know about their plants and bulbs.) Instead of a grassy back yard, which has a fairly good slope to it and terrible to mow, we now have a Wildflower Meadow! This is our third year with the Meadow. We were excited to see Hummingbirds, Monarchs, Bumble Bees and Honey Bees! A few flowers have already bloomed. We sowed some more seed last week and in another week or so we will sow some more!

By: lynn

lynn — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:16:23 +0000

In reply to Penny Amy. You are my hero! But I am so frustrated with our government for basically ignoring this issue. Thanks for chiming in and for the work you have done on behalf of our bees! 🐝 Hugs, Lynn

By: Penny Amy

Penny Amy — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:10:13 +0000

Lynn, I was a bee pathogen researcher before retirement. I thoroughly believe that the neonicotinoids are the leading chemical cause of colony collapse. Not only do they cause direct neural disorientation and motor damage, they then make the surviving bees susceptible to pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and mites. We should be asking why our US EPA has not banned them? When France’s people marched in the streets to the Minister of Agriculture (or whatever the correct title is in France), he banned those chemicals. Guess what happened? The bees came back in force the very first year. Not to mention the articles having been published on research experiments with chemicals and bees. This is a no brainer but ………