Discuss the “Bringing Back Urban Bees” radio story
Spring may be in the air, but the bees that pollinate our fruit and flowers may not be. The number of bees in the U.S. has declined, especially in urban areas. The traditional way to increase bee numbers is with hives of European honeybees — but setbacks in keeping city beehives means that a different, long-term solution needs to be found. In the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s a new idea in the air — to bring back wild, native bees to the urban landscape.
You may listen the “Bringing Back Urban bees” Radio report online.
The website mentioned in this story is really great - it shows you which flowers you can add to your garden in order to attract native bees!
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/index.html
I’m looking for a link or name of someone/department to contact to remove bees alive.
There are hives popping up under the BART rail and someone keeps killing all the bees.
thanks,
ellen