Daily Quiz for September 15, 2019

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  • September 15, 2019 at 12:30 am #18183
    Mike Nolan
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      How many flowers do honeybees have to visit to make a pound of honey?

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      September 15, 2019 at 8:38 am #18184
      Joan Simpson
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        I've read this before.

        September 15, 2019 at 9:03 am #18185
        BakerAunt
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          I missed it, but I now have even greater respect for bees and their product. The answer here shows us why we need to put in plants that encourage honey bees and to protect them from chemicals known to hurt them.

          September 15, 2019 at 10:58 am #18186
          Mike Nolan
          Keymaster

            I don't use chemicals on our lawn or in our garden. If I lose some of my tomato crop to bugs, that's just part of the cycle of life. I'm tempted to find an area of the yard to seed in buckwheat again, it was really pretty and the bees LOVED it.

            Buckwheat

            Bee in buckwheat flower

            September 15, 2019 at 4:29 pm #18188
            skeptic7
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              I missed that. There weren't many bees around this spring, but now that the Chinese Chives are in bloom, I see more bees visiting those flowers. Also a lot of butterflies.

              September 15, 2019 at 4:33 pm #18192
              BakerAunt
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                We also were short on honey bees this spring and summer. We had some nice clover in the yard, and my husband remarked that years ago, honey bees would have been all over them. We've seen the bumble bees around the goldenrod, and I did see some little honey bees the other day. The biggest problem in our area are the people who want to make our rural area into suburbia--with the manicured lawns, fertilizers, and pesticides suburban lawns demand.

                September 15, 2019 at 4:43 pm #18193
                Mike Nolan
                Keymaster

                  Speaking of butterflies, the annual invasion of Painted Ladies has started here.

                  And the hummingbirds finally arrived, we've been seeing a half dozen or more at a time yesterday and today.

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