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  • From: annallys Goodwin-Landher <annallys AT hotmail.com>
  • To: OCBA <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] Marla Spivak TED talk on "Why Bees Are Dissapearing"
  • Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:38:47 -0400

Great Ted talk by Marla Spivak on "Why Bees Are Dissapearing" that was on NPR a couple of weeks ago. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7iATJVCso

If you follow her suggestions to plant flowers and go "...cide"  free (pesticide, herbicide, fungicide) buy plants from local growers, from small seed companies or save seeds from a friends garden.   Forget about buying seeds pretreated with fungicides or neonics from large corporations attempting to convince us that their toxic coated seeds work best and are "bee-friendly."

If you have a meadow or area in wild flowers, grasses, clovers etc, if possible, mow in rotation, leaving 2/3 to 3/4 of grasses and blooms for bees and native pollinators.  This keeps a constant food source available for pollen and nectar from spring through fall.  


Annallys
919 933-9109
annallys AT hotmail.com

Four years after the bees are gone, humanity is gone.

Albert Einstein



  • [ocba] Marla Spivak TED talk on "Why Bees Are Dissapearing", annallys Goodwin-Landher, 10/13/2013

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