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How can you help from home and in your communities?
How can you help from home and in your communities?
- Make a watering hole/bee bath to put in your own backyard! Bees need to drink water too!
- You'll need a shallow bowl, rocks and marbles, and an optional solar pump (Still water can attract mosquitoes, as well as water that has been left out for too long)
- Fill your shallow bowl with the rocks/marbles and fill it with water, making sure it only reaches around 1/2 - 3/4 the height of the rocks. If the water level is too high, the bees can drown, so make sure they can still perch on the rocks!
- Eating organically and locally!
- Organic and local foods mean less pesticides, and supporting small farms with sustainable practices, rather than large industrial farms that have a monoculture, will help the bees.
Provide homes for the bees!
- Solitary bees like Mason bees rest in cavities. In the winter, having shelter is very important. You can either drill holes in wood or use hollow stems to provide shelter!
- Plant wildflowers and other pollinator friendly plants
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