#savethebees — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #savethebees, aggregated by home.social.
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It's always lovely to spend time in the garden... Especially with little bee friends who show up wearing their best frilly bloomers.
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It's always lovely to spend time in the garden... Especially with little bee friends who show up wearing their best frilly bloomers.
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It's always lovely to spend time in the garden... Especially with little bee friends who show up wearing their best frilly bloomers.
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It's always lovely to spend time in the garden... Especially with little bee friends who show up wearing their best frilly bloomers.
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350,000 pollinator species. 15 European bumblebee species now threatened. Butterfly extinction risk up 76% in a decade. Only 41% of FAO-analyzed countries include pollinator action in their biodiversity plans. The bees did not deregulate the pesticides. Same spreadsheet, same hands. The full read, with Druid grounding:
https://twp.ai/9OVuiq
#Pollinators #Bees #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #SaveTheBees #Ecology #Environment #NativePlants #Rewilding #ClimateAction -
15 European bumblebee species threatened. Butterfly extinction risk up 76% in a decade. The bees did not deregulate the pesticides. https://twp.ai/4hqfWm #Bees #Pollinators #Biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #SaveTheBees #Ecology #Rewilding /|\
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Il 20 maggio e il paradosso degli impollinatori: tra ritualità e declino sistemico
On World Bee Day 20 May 2026, experts discuss the drop in bee numbers. Learn how farming and climate change affect food security and the environment.
#worldbeeday, #savethebees, #biodiversity, #environment2026, #agriculture
https://newsletter.tf/world-bee-day-20-may-2026-decline-facts/
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Today is the 9th World Bee Day. Despite many new studies, wild bee numbers are lower than last year due to pesticides and habitat loss.
#worldbeeday, #savethebees, #biodiversity, #environment2026, #agriculture
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Today is the 9th World Bee Day. Despite many new studies, wild bee numbers are lower than last year due to pesticides and habitat loss.
#worldbeeday, #savethebees, #biodiversity, #environment2026, #agriculture
https://newsletter.tf/world-bee-day-20-may-2026-decline-facts/ -
Today is the 9th World Bee Day. Despite many new studies, wild bee numbers are lower than last year due to pesticides and habitat loss.
#worldbeeday, #savethebees, #biodiversity, #environment2026, #agriculture
https://newsletter.tf/world-bee-day-20-may-2026-decline-facts/ -
Today is the 9th World Bee Day. Despite many new studies, wild bee numbers are lower than last year due to pesticides and habitat loss.
#worldbeeday, #savethebees, #biodiversity, #environment2026, #agriculture
https://newsletter.tf/world-bee-day-20-may-2026-decline-facts/ -
Today is the 9th World Bee Day. Despite many new studies, wild bee numbers are lower than last year due to pesticides and habitat loss.
#worldbeeday, #savethebees, #biodiversity, #environment2026, #agriculture
https://newsletter.tf/world-bee-day-20-may-2026-decline-facts/ -
No #WorldBeeDay would be complete without highlighting the #WorldBeeSanctuary ! Become a patron! #SaveTheBees !
And don't forget to follow @thebeeguy here on Mastodon!
"Our Mission
To inspire and teach people across the planet to care for Native Wild Bees and to empower everybody to take the real actions that will halt the dramatic and worrying decline in Native Wild Bee numbers."
FMI and to donate:
https://worldbeesanctuary.org/ -
No #WorldBeeDay would be complete without highlighting the #WorldBeeSanctuary ! Become a patron! #SaveTheBees !
And don't forget to follow @thebeeguy here on Mastodon!
"Our Mission
To inspire and teach people across the planet to care for Native Wild Bees and to empower everybody to take the real actions that will halt the dramatic and worrying decline in Native Wild Bee numbers."
FMI and to donate:
https://worldbeesanctuary.org/ -
No #WorldBeeDay would be complete without highlighting the #WorldBeeSanctuary ! Become a patron! #SaveTheBees !
And don't forget to follow @thebeeguy here on Mastodon!
"Our Mission
To inspire and teach people across the planet to care for Native Wild Bees and to empower everybody to take the real actions that will halt the dramatic and worrying decline in Native Wild Bee numbers."
FMI and to donate:
https://worldbeesanctuary.org/ -
No #WorldBeeDay would be complete without highlighting the #WorldBeeSanctuary ! Become a patron! #SaveTheBees !
And don't forget to follow @thebeeguy here on Mastodon!
"Our Mission
To inspire and teach people across the planet to care for Native Wild Bees and to empower everybody to take the real actions that will halt the dramatic and worrying decline in Native Wild Bee numbers."
FMI and to donate:
https://worldbeesanctuary.org/ -
No #WorldBeeDay would be complete without highlighting the #WorldBeeSanctuary ! Become a patron! #SaveTheBees !
And don't forget to follow @thebeeguy here on Mastodon!
"Our Mission
To inspire and teach people across the planet to care for Native Wild Bees and to empower everybody to take the real actions that will halt the dramatic and worrying decline in Native Wild Bee numbers."
FMI and to donate:
https://worldbeesanctuary.org/ -
From 2020: #Mexico has 1,900 species of #bees and they’re all at risk: biologist
by Susy Buchanan
May 21, 2020"All of Mexico’s 1,900 different species of native bees are at risk of extinction, says Ricardo Ayala Barajas, a National Autonomous University researcher based at the Chamela Biology Station in Jalisco.
"Most of Mexico’s bees do not sting and only 47 species produce honey, but all native species are endangered, explained the researcher on the United Nations World Bee Day, May 20.
"In an interview with the newspaper Milenio, Ayala said that around the world there are approximately 20,000 different named species of bees, and like in Mexico, every one is threatened by the use of #insecticides and #deforestation.
" 'A great effort is required to try to reduce the use of insecticides and make more careful use of natural resources, for the future of humanity and to care for the bees that help plants reproduce and generate fruits and seeds,' Ayala said. 'We must appreciate and understand them more in order to prevent them from disappearing.'
"Bee conservation is on the rise in Mexico, just as it is globally.
"In #Guanajuato, people who kill #bees or harm their #habitat can be fined up to 8,000 pesos (US $350). In #Yucatán, the government and communities are collaborating on a bee conservation project after significant bee populations have died, thought to be a result of crop dusting. A similar campaign is underway in #Campeche."
Source:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-has-1900-species-of-bees-and-theyre-all-at-risk-biologist/#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #NativeBees #YucatanBees #BeeConservation
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From 2020: #Mexico has 1,900 species of #bees and they’re all at risk: biologist
by Susy Buchanan
May 21, 2020"All of Mexico’s 1,900 different species of native bees are at risk of extinction, says Ricardo Ayala Barajas, a National Autonomous University researcher based at the Chamela Biology Station in Jalisco.
"Most of Mexico’s bees do not sting and only 47 species produce honey, but all native species are endangered, explained the researcher on the United Nations World Bee Day, May 20.
"In an interview with the newspaper Milenio, Ayala said that around the world there are approximately 20,000 different named species of bees, and like in Mexico, every one is threatened by the use of #insecticides and #deforestation.
" 'A great effort is required to try to reduce the use of insecticides and make more careful use of natural resources, for the future of humanity and to care for the bees that help plants reproduce and generate fruits and seeds,' Ayala said. 'We must appreciate and understand them more in order to prevent them from disappearing.'
"Bee conservation is on the rise in Mexico, just as it is globally.
"In #Guanajuato, people who kill #bees or harm their #habitat can be fined up to 8,000 pesos (US $350). In #Yucatán, the government and communities are collaborating on a bee conservation project after significant bee populations have died, thought to be a result of crop dusting. A similar campaign is underway in #Campeche."
Source:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-has-1900-species-of-bees-and-theyre-all-at-risk-biologist/#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #NativeBees #YucatanBees #BeeConservation
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From 2020: #Mexico has 1,900 species of #bees and they’re all at risk: biologist
by Susy Buchanan
May 21, 2020"All of Mexico’s 1,900 different species of native bees are at risk of extinction, says Ricardo Ayala Barajas, a National Autonomous University researcher based at the Chamela Biology Station in Jalisco.
"Most of Mexico’s bees do not sting and only 47 species produce honey, but all native species are endangered, explained the researcher on the United Nations World Bee Day, May 20.
"In an interview with the newspaper Milenio, Ayala said that around the world there are approximately 20,000 different named species of bees, and like in Mexico, every one is threatened by the use of #insecticides and #deforestation.
" 'A great effort is required to try to reduce the use of insecticides and make more careful use of natural resources, for the future of humanity and to care for the bees that help plants reproduce and generate fruits and seeds,' Ayala said. 'We must appreciate and understand them more in order to prevent them from disappearing.'
"Bee conservation is on the rise in Mexico, just as it is globally.
"In #Guanajuato, people who kill #bees or harm their #habitat can be fined up to 8,000 pesos (US $350). In #Yucatán, the government and communities are collaborating on a bee conservation project after significant bee populations have died, thought to be a result of crop dusting. A similar campaign is underway in #Campeche."
Source:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-has-1900-species-of-bees-and-theyre-all-at-risk-biologist/#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #NativeBees #YucatanBees #BeeConservation
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From 2020: #Mexico has 1,900 species of #bees and they’re all at risk: biologist
by Susy Buchanan
May 21, 2020"All of Mexico’s 1,900 different species of native bees are at risk of extinction, says Ricardo Ayala Barajas, a National Autonomous University researcher based at the Chamela Biology Station in Jalisco.
"Most of Mexico’s bees do not sting and only 47 species produce honey, but all native species are endangered, explained the researcher on the United Nations World Bee Day, May 20.
"In an interview with the newspaper Milenio, Ayala said that around the world there are approximately 20,000 different named species of bees, and like in Mexico, every one is threatened by the use of #insecticides and #deforestation.
" 'A great effort is required to try to reduce the use of insecticides and make more careful use of natural resources, for the future of humanity and to care for the bees that help plants reproduce and generate fruits and seeds,' Ayala said. 'We must appreciate and understand them more in order to prevent them from disappearing.'
"Bee conservation is on the rise in Mexico, just as it is globally.
"In #Guanajuato, people who kill #bees or harm their #habitat can be fined up to 8,000 pesos (US $350). In #Yucatán, the government and communities are collaborating on a bee conservation project after significant bee populations have died, thought to be a result of crop dusting. A similar campaign is underway in #Campeche."
Source:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-has-1900-species-of-bees-and-theyre-all-at-risk-biologist/#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #NativeBees #YucatanBees #BeeConservation
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From 2020: #Mexico has 1,900 species of #bees and they’re all at risk: biologist
by Susy Buchanan
May 21, 2020"All of Mexico’s 1,900 different species of native bees are at risk of extinction, says Ricardo Ayala Barajas, a National Autonomous University researcher based at the Chamela Biology Station in Jalisco.
"Most of Mexico’s bees do not sting and only 47 species produce honey, but all native species are endangered, explained the researcher on the United Nations World Bee Day, May 20.
"In an interview with the newspaper Milenio, Ayala said that around the world there are approximately 20,000 different named species of bees, and like in Mexico, every one is threatened by the use of #insecticides and #deforestation.
" 'A great effort is required to try to reduce the use of insecticides and make more careful use of natural resources, for the future of humanity and to care for the bees that help plants reproduce and generate fruits and seeds,' Ayala said. 'We must appreciate and understand them more in order to prevent them from disappearing.'
"Bee conservation is on the rise in Mexico, just as it is globally.
"In #Guanajuato, people who kill #bees or harm their #habitat can be fined up to 8,000 pesos (US $350). In #Yucatán, the government and communities are collaborating on a bee conservation project after significant bee populations have died, thought to be a result of crop dusting. A similar campaign is underway in #Campeche."
Source:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-has-1900-species-of-bees-and-theyre-all-at-risk-biologist/#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #NativeBees #YucatanBees #BeeConservation
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#UK - #BeeFriendly plants for every season
"Bees and pollinators need 3 things to thrive – food, shelter and water. With some planning around the seasons, we can help our vital pollinators by growing flowers from spring to winter, and not just when the sun shines.
Use our handy guide to pollinator-friendly plants – including trees, veg, herbs and flowers – to offer a valuable source of nectar and pollen through the year.
Experiment with different shaped flowers – the tongues of bees, hover flies, moths and other pollinators vary in size – see what grows well in your garden."
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/beefriendly-plants-every-season
#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #GardeningForPollinators #PollinatorFriendlyPlants
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#UK - #BeeFriendly plants for every season
"Bees and pollinators need 3 things to thrive – food, shelter and water. With some planning around the seasons, we can help our vital pollinators by growing flowers from spring to winter, and not just when the sun shines.
Use our handy guide to pollinator-friendly plants – including trees, veg, herbs and flowers – to offer a valuable source of nectar and pollen through the year.
Experiment with different shaped flowers – the tongues of bees, hover flies, moths and other pollinators vary in size – see what grows well in your garden."
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/beefriendly-plants-every-season
#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #GardeningForPollinators #PollinatorFriendlyPlants
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#UK - #BeeFriendly plants for every season
"Bees and pollinators need 3 things to thrive – food, shelter and water. With some planning around the seasons, we can help our vital pollinators by growing flowers from spring to winter, and not just when the sun shines.
Use our handy guide to pollinator-friendly plants – including trees, veg, herbs and flowers – to offer a valuable source of nectar and pollen through the year.
Experiment with different shaped flowers – the tongues of bees, hover flies, moths and other pollinators vary in size – see what grows well in your garden."
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/beefriendly-plants-every-season
#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #GardeningForPollinators #PollinatorFriendlyPlants
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#UK - #BeeFriendly plants for every season
"Bees and pollinators need 3 things to thrive – food, shelter and water. With some planning around the seasons, we can help our vital pollinators by growing flowers from spring to winter, and not just when the sun shines.
Use our handy guide to pollinator-friendly plants – including trees, veg, herbs and flowers – to offer a valuable source of nectar and pollen through the year.
Experiment with different shaped flowers – the tongues of bees, hover flies, moths and other pollinators vary in size – see what grows well in your garden."
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/beefriendly-plants-every-season
#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #GardeningForPollinators #PollinatorFriendlyPlants
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#UK - #BeeFriendly plants for every season
"Bees and pollinators need 3 things to thrive – food, shelter and water. With some planning around the seasons, we can help our vital pollinators by growing flowers from spring to winter, and not just when the sun shines.
Use our handy guide to pollinator-friendly plants – including trees, veg, herbs and flowers – to offer a valuable source of nectar and pollen through the year.
Experiment with different shaped flowers – the tongues of bees, hover flies, moths and other pollinators vary in size – see what grows well in your garden."
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/beefriendly-plants-every-season
#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #GardeningForPollinators #PollinatorFriendlyPlants
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On the international day for celebrating bees, The Bee Guy shares 20 cool facts about these amazing and very much endangered creatures.
#worldbeeday #bees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary #bumblebees
#solitarybees #savethebeeshttps://www.thejournal.ie/readme/world-bee-day-2026-7045157-May2026/
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On the international day for celebrating bees, The Bee Guy shares 20 cool facts about these amazing and very much endangered creatures.
#worldbeeday #bees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary #bumblebees
#solitarybees #savethebeeshttps://www.thejournal.ie/readme/world-bee-day-2026-7045157-May2026/
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On the international day for celebrating bees, The Bee Guy shares 20 cool facts about these amazing and very much endangered creatures.
#worldbeeday #bees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary #bumblebees
#solitarybees #savethebeeshttps://www.thejournal.ie/readme/world-bee-day-2026-7045157-May2026/
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On the international day for celebrating bees, The Bee Guy shares 20 cool facts about these amazing and very much endangered creatures.
#worldbeeday #bees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary #bumblebees
#solitarybees #savethebeeshttps://www.thejournal.ie/readme/world-bee-day-2026-7045157-May2026/
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On the international day for celebrating bees, The Bee Guy shares 20 cool facts about these amazing and very much endangered creatures.
#worldbeeday #bees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary #bumblebees
#solitarybees #savethebeeshttps://www.thejournal.ie/readme/world-bee-day-2026-7045157-May2026/
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Women Work to Save #NativeBees of #Mexico
A happy story about #bees, #BeeConservation, and empowering women in Mexico.
Mar 5, 2014
Excerpt: "Spaniards introduced European #honeybees to Central America around 1620, and they are now well established. European honey bees (and their Africanized form) do compete with gentle #NativeBee species for pollen and nectar on flowers. #MeliponaBeecheii is a #ForestBee, so if they could find flowering trees and shrubs, competition with honey bees might not be a problem. Alas, #Yucatan is heavily logged.
"The Yucatan peninsula sits right in the path of a lot of big storms; quite a few hurricanes, floods, and droughts have caused beekeepers to lose all or most of their hives. Native stingless bees are quite sensitive to #pesticides, so that isn't helping either."
Learn more:
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/women-work-save-native-bees-mexico/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/C5qzcLink to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4v1E2mRhw#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #EmpoweringWomen #YucatanBees #IndigenousWomen
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Women Work to Save #NativeBees of #Mexico
A happy story about #bees, #BeeConservation, and empowering women in Mexico.
Mar 5, 2014
Excerpt: "Spaniards introduced European #honeybees to Central America around 1620, and they are now well established. European honey bees (and their Africanized form) do compete with gentle #NativeBee species for pollen and nectar on flowers. #MeliponaBeecheii is a #ForestBee, so if they could find flowering trees and shrubs, competition with honey bees might not be a problem. Alas, #Yucatan is heavily logged.
"The Yucatan peninsula sits right in the path of a lot of big storms; quite a few hurricanes, floods, and droughts have caused beekeepers to lose all or most of their hives. Native stingless bees are quite sensitive to #pesticides, so that isn't helping either."
Learn more:
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/women-work-save-native-bees-mexico/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/C5qzcLink to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4v1E2mRhw#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #EmpoweringWomen #YucatanBees #IndigenousWomen
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Women Work to Save #NativeBees of #Mexico
A happy story about #bees, #BeeConservation, and empowering women in Mexico.
Mar 5, 2014
Excerpt: "Spaniards introduced European #honeybees to Central America around 1620, and they are now well established. European honey bees (and their Africanized form) do compete with gentle #NativeBee species for pollen and nectar on flowers. #MeliponaBeecheii is a #ForestBee, so if they could find flowering trees and shrubs, competition with honey bees might not be a problem. Alas, #Yucatan is heavily logged.
"The Yucatan peninsula sits right in the path of a lot of big storms; quite a few hurricanes, floods, and droughts have caused beekeepers to lose all or most of their hives. Native stingless bees are quite sensitive to #pesticides, so that isn't helping either."
Learn more:
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/women-work-save-native-bees-mexico/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/C5qzcLink to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4v1E2mRhw#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #EmpoweringWomen #YucatanBees #IndigenousWomen
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Women Work to Save #NativeBees of #Mexico
A happy story about #bees, #BeeConservation, and empowering women in Mexico.
Mar 5, 2014
Excerpt: "Spaniards introduced European #honeybees to Central America around 1620, and they are now well established. European honey bees (and their Africanized form) do compete with gentle #NativeBee species for pollen and nectar on flowers. #MeliponaBeecheii is a #ForestBee, so if they could find flowering trees and shrubs, competition with honey bees might not be a problem. Alas, #Yucatan is heavily logged.
"The Yucatan peninsula sits right in the path of a lot of big storms; quite a few hurricanes, floods, and droughts have caused beekeepers to lose all or most of their hives. Native stingless bees are quite sensitive to #pesticides, so that isn't helping either."
Learn more:
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/women-work-save-native-bees-mexico/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/C5qzcLink to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4v1E2mRhw#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #EmpoweringWomen #YucatanBees #IndigenousWomen
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Women Work to Save #NativeBees of #Mexico
A happy story about #bees, #BeeConservation, and empowering women in Mexico.
Mar 5, 2014
Excerpt: "Spaniards introduced European #honeybees to Central America around 1620, and they are now well established. European honey bees (and their Africanized form) do compete with gentle #NativeBee species for pollen and nectar on flowers. #MeliponaBeecheii is a #ForestBee, so if they could find flowering trees and shrubs, competition with honey bees might not be a problem. Alas, #Yucatan is heavily logged.
"The Yucatan peninsula sits right in the path of a lot of big storms; quite a few hurricanes, floods, and droughts have caused beekeepers to lose all or most of their hives. Native stingless bees are quite sensitive to #pesticides, so that isn't helping either."
Learn more:
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/women-work-save-native-bees-mexico/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/C5qzcLink to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c4v1E2mRhw#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees #EmpoweringWomen #YucatanBees #IndigenousWomen
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I made mine out of a clean plant saucer (made of unglazed pottery) filled with smooth stones and marbles. It sits atop a plant basket with a stem in the ground. Just like with bird baths, the watering station needs to be kept clean to keep our pollinator friends healthy!
You Can Make a Bee Watering Station with a Bowl of Marbles
By Hannah Twietmeyer
Updated on Nov. 17, 2023"This bee waterer will make your backyard an oasis for hardworking pollinators. It's easy to DIY, too."
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I made mine out of a clean plant saucer (made of unglazed pottery) filled with smooth stones and marbles. It sits atop a plant basket with a stem in the ground. Just like with bird baths, the watering station needs to be kept clean to keep our pollinator friends healthy!
You Can Make a Bee Watering Station with a Bowl of Marbles
By Hannah Twietmeyer
Updated on Nov. 17, 2023"This bee waterer will make your backyard an oasis for hardworking pollinators. It's easy to DIY, too."
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I made mine out of a clean plant saucer (made of unglazed pottery) filled with smooth stones and marbles. It sits atop a plant basket with a stem in the ground. Just like with bird baths, the watering station needs to be kept clean to keep our pollinator friends healthy!
You Can Make a Bee Watering Station with a Bowl of Marbles
By Hannah Twietmeyer
Updated on Nov. 17, 2023"This bee waterer will make your backyard an oasis for hardworking pollinators. It's easy to DIY, too."
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I made mine out of a clean plant saucer (made of unglazed pottery) filled with smooth stones and marbles. It sits atop a plant basket with a stem in the ground. Just like with bird baths, the watering station needs to be kept clean to keep our pollinator friends healthy!
You Can Make a Bee Watering Station with a Bowl of Marbles
By Hannah Twietmeyer
Updated on Nov. 17, 2023"This bee waterer will make your backyard an oasis for hardworking pollinators. It's easy to DIY, too."
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I made mine out of a clean plant saucer (made of unglazed pottery) filled with smooth stones and marbles. It sits atop a plant basket with a stem in the ground. Just like with bird baths, the watering station needs to be kept clean to keep our pollinator friends healthy!
You Can Make a Bee Watering Station with a Bowl of Marbles
By Hannah Twietmeyer
Updated on Nov. 17, 2023"This bee waterer will make your backyard an oasis for hardworking pollinators. It's easy to DIY, too."
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#BeesNotBillionaires - Clothing for a wilder world.
Not-for-profit. For the planet.
"100% of profits go to #SavingBees, restoring #biodiversity, and protecting the wild places we love.
BEES ARE RAPIDLY DISSAPEARING
Native wild bees are in serious decline with 40% facing extinction and 25% no longer showing up on records worldwide. Many conservation efforts focus on honeybees which are not endangered — it's Bumblebees and Solitary Bees that need our help. Keeping honey bees does not save #Bumblebees and #SolitaryBees and is actually making this already serious problem worse.
81 BILLIONAIRES HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN 50% OF THE WORLD COMBINED
While bee numbers have declined and climate breakdown has become ever more obvious across the planet billionaires have continued to get richer and more numerous. 2024 saw 204 new billionaires and 2025 has seen their influence and power wielded like never before."
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#BeesNotBillionaires - Clothing for a wilder world.
Not-for-profit. For the planet.
"100% of profits go to #SavingBees, restoring #biodiversity, and protecting the wild places we love.
BEES ARE RAPIDLY DISSAPEARING
Native wild bees are in serious decline with 40% facing extinction and 25% no longer showing up on records worldwide. Many conservation efforts focus on honeybees which are not endangered — it's Bumblebees and Solitary Bees that need our help. Keeping honey bees does not save #Bumblebees and #SolitaryBees and is actually making this already serious problem worse.
81 BILLIONAIRES HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN 50% OF THE WORLD COMBINED
While bee numbers have declined and climate breakdown has become ever more obvious across the planet billionaires have continued to get richer and more numerous. 2024 saw 204 new billionaires and 2025 has seen their influence and power wielded like never before."
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#BeesNotBillionaires - Clothing for a wilder world.
Not-for-profit. For the planet.
"100% of profits go to #SavingBees, restoring #biodiversity, and protecting the wild places we love.
BEES ARE RAPIDLY DISSAPEARING
Native wild bees are in serious decline with 40% facing extinction and 25% no longer showing up on records worldwide. Many conservation efforts focus on honeybees which are not endangered — it's Bumblebees and Solitary Bees that need our help. Keeping honey bees does not save #Bumblebees and #SolitaryBees and is actually making this already serious problem worse.
81 BILLIONAIRES HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN 50% OF THE WORLD COMBINED
While bee numbers have declined and climate breakdown has become ever more obvious across the planet billionaires have continued to get richer and more numerous. 2024 saw 204 new billionaires and 2025 has seen their influence and power wielded like never before."
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#BeesNotBillionaires - Clothing for a wilder world.
Not-for-profit. For the planet.
"100% of profits go to #SavingBees, restoring #biodiversity, and protecting the wild places we love.
BEES ARE RAPIDLY DISSAPEARING
Native wild bees are in serious decline with 40% facing extinction and 25% no longer showing up on records worldwide. Many conservation efforts focus on honeybees which are not endangered — it's Bumblebees and Solitary Bees that need our help. Keeping honey bees does not save #Bumblebees and #SolitaryBees and is actually making this already serious problem worse.
81 BILLIONAIRES HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN 50% OF THE WORLD COMBINED
While bee numbers have declined and climate breakdown has become ever more obvious across the planet billionaires have continued to get richer and more numerous. 2024 saw 204 new billionaires and 2025 has seen their influence and power wielded like never before."
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"100% of profits go to #SavingBees, restoring #biodiversity, and protecting the wild places we love.
BEES ARE RAPIDLY DISSAPEARING
Native wild bees are in serious decline with 40% facing extinction and 25% no longer showing up on records worldwide. Many conservation efforts focus on honeybees which are not endangered — it's Bumblebees and Solitary Bees that need our help. Keeping honey bees does not save #Bumblebees and #SolitaryBees and is actually making this already serious problem worse.
81 BILLIONAIRES HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN 50% OF THE WORLD COMBINED
While bee numbers have declined and climate breakdown has become ever more obvious across the planet billionaires have continued to get richer and more numerous. 2024 saw 204 new billionaires and 2025 has seen their influence and power wielded like never before."
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“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/