Daily Quiz for September 15, 2019

[Mike Nolan]

How many flowers do honeybees have to visit to make a pound of honey?

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[Joan Simpson]

I've read this before.

[BakerAunt]

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.

[Mike Nolan]

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.

[skeptic7]

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.

[BakerAunt]

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.

[Mike Nolan]

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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