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10 years ago

Read this line last night from an article on CNN: "he US Fish and Wildlife Service said it added the yellow-faced bee species to the federal list of endangered species Friday"

Personally, I'm very pleased to see this. Hopefully, it will be followed up by effective strategies to protect them. In Florida I'm worried about the efforts to eradicate the mosquitoes that carry the zika virus. They are doing a lot of spraying in South Florida now and even communities in Georgia have stepped up spraying efforts.

I'm sure most of us gardeners are doing good by growing so many pollinator-friendly plants.

Less grass, more flowers.

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Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
10 years ago
I am not good at identifying bees, even though there are tons on the goldenrod right now. Since the protected bees are native to Hawaii, are they around here?
Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
10 years ago
Not long ago they killed millions of bees here in SC spraying mosquitos. The beekeeper said she did not get a warning. And they sprayed at 8am when the bees were out of the hives.
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Xtal in Central TX, zone 8b
10 years ago
Oh my, how tragic to loose all those seeds. I hope you got back in their face about that. My heart goes out to you.
Tom
Original Author
10 years ago
Turns out that you asked a very good question, Iris. Apparently the yellow-faced bees are native to Hawaii and not the continental USA. Most of the bees in the continental USA seem to be doing better than a few years ago when there was a good deal of colony collapse.

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