pollinators – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:28:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 pollinators – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Don’t Mow the Goldenrod https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/goldenrod-zbw1912ztil/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/goldenrod-zbw1912ztil/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:55:08 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4463 I have allergies…let…me…tell…you…do I have allergies. Indoor, outdoor, seasonal…everything makes my sinuses upset. When I was a kid I did the whole allergy shot ritual, which seemed to do absolutely nothing except make me afraid of needles. I lived at our ENT specialist, tried every allergy medicine, nose spray, antihistamine there is and after all […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/goldenrod-zbw1912ztil/feed/ 2 Carpenter Bees: The Harmless Garden Pollinators https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/carpenter-bees-the-harmless-garden-pollinators-zbwz1802zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/carpenter-bees-the-harmless-garden-pollinators-zbwz1802zsau/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2018 07:32:09 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3792 Bees are one of the most important insects to us. Not only are they great garden pollinators, they maintain biological balance and recycle soil nutrients. Learn all about bees — from their appearance to the many unknown North American Species in Bees, Wasps, and Ants (Timber Press, 2010) by Eric Grissell. The following excerpt was taken from […]

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