Great presentation! This is the exact starting point I was looking for. We just bought a house on 2.5 acre and I wanna make it as bee friendly as I can.
Trees are one of the most important sources of food for bees. For example: two lime trees give as much nectar as an acre of clover. Pussy willows offer bee food a month earlier than dandelions.
Excellent video, this should be a PSA. The first spring in my house, 2017, there was a flowering tree along the fence a "red bud". It was in bloom and covered with large carpenter bees, like hundreds. The next year the population visiting was hardly noticeable, the most at any given time could have been 10 or less, probably more, but certainly not hundreds. I have no idea why or how this happened, they never returned to that volume. Maybe that first year other sources they usually pursue were less abundant for some reason? Unfortunately I don't have history prior to that first year. I notice these carpenter bees really enjoy the Agastache flowers and lavender flowers are enjoyed by some other type of bees.
Thanks for this video! Funny enough, I needed to hear "ornamental grasses" to know what I've been searching for. Never could figure out what they're called. I promise not to plant too many now that I've seen your video though. :)
Thank you for distilling this information so succinctly! I have read that some grasses are actually preferred by some native species of bee and provide overwintering habitat for them, so it is worth considering establishing a few tussocks in a meadow or bed (though they might proliferate quickly in a bare flower bed). Cock's foot is an example of a UK native that honeybees enjoy. The US surely has equivalents.
My favorite bee friendly plant is the wild sunflower. It blooms all summer. They should have a web cam somewhere focused on bees feeding on a plant. I love watching bees work.
When you plant flowers to grow in tiers, do plant on flat soil??? Or berms?? I like how the tiers looks in the landscape. 🥰 It appears the plants are pointed toward the path.
I have large patches of a mauve wallflower called Erysimum Bowles's Mauve. The bees LOVE it! And although there are less flowers in Winter, it does flower all year round, here in the South or England. I let the back of my garden grow wild as well, to help them out. The Butterflies love that. I'm going to plant lots of nasturtiums too, as they grow easy and the cabbage butterflies love to lay their eggs on them. I spray soapy water to get rid of aphids rather than insecticides. Works really well, and doesn't seem to affect the bees and butterflies. :)
You probably should leave the aphids even though we call em a pest they are beneficial for ladybugs 🐞 to feed on. All insects are important. Weeds and pest are a human concept not nature. It’s al part of a healthy live cycle 😊😊
What a lovely informative video thank you for sharing and teaching us. I just purchased two bags of mulch today and now I feel guilty. What do you suggest I use in lieu of mulch?
We moved a few months ago and will be redoing the back yard with a vegetable garden and lots of flower beds around the bee hives. I can't read the chart that I am seeing at 4:11 in the video. Can you pass along where I can see it full screen? Thanks!
Tuirapanui .Well you are poorly educated, with bee keepers there are way many more colonies of bees than if they where on there own to service, and harming bees I don’t think so, honey is healthy also and are you going to tell the birds to stop eating bees because there harming the bees. Natural honey Hunter’s since man found bees , they did harm the bees colonies because they didn’t know how to get the honey , good luck with stopping people from eating honey.
Go crazy: www.google.ca/search?q=flower+blooming+chart&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitmNjXs_7ZAhUnyoMKHU94DYIQ_AUICigB&biw=843&bih=793&dpr=1.13#imgrc=_
You mean the American Indiens never had all those fruit and nuts that you mentioned since they did not have honey bees? Honey bees were brought over by the Europeans.
Honeybees are just one of over 16,000 species of bees. There are many species of bees that pollinate that are native to North America, such as bumblebees.
Conversation Robot I've been looking into neem oil for my herbs and it's sounds like all it does is keep insects from eating your plants. You combine it with a specific soap and spray it over the leaves and stems where insects will eat. It's the best insect repellent out there because it's safe human consumption, the environment, and it doesn't directly kill most insects. I would just make sure to spray it before and after blooming to avoid ruining the pollen. Although, i know that many rose gardeners will spray it all over their open flowers regardless (this is probably because they tend to use them for sales and not food for bees).
american capitalism has foisted monoculture crops on the world, vast fields where everything but the crop is bludgeoned into submission. its all well and good that gardeners do their bit and refuse to buy grotesque and unnatural double flowers, but unless farmers and large scale landowners change their ways...we humans are f*cked as a species. we need all of our (uk) farmers to put back the hedges they ripped up, replace all the ponds they filled in and restore the flower rich meadows they vandalised in the pursuit of efficiency or profit. i can forgive the wartime generation, who were incentivised to wreck the countryside, but farmers of the 21st century should be custodians and stewards of the land and put right what was done out of ignorance by their predecessors. there is hope for the uk,
Air pollination can occur, but it isn't the only way. In places such as where I live where wind isn't strong enough to pollinate, people either rely on bees and insects, or they hand-pollinate. Many seed sites talk about hand pollination and the roles bees play in tomato pollination.
I keep bees for much more important problem, Oxygen, it is producing by plants, trees, they need bees Oxygen in 1900 was 23 %, now is 21%...demand for oxygen is more and more, productions is less and less, why because You have more roof tops and roads, cars and coal power stations...and many more but forest is less and less Third World War will be for Oxygen. The bees are very rear animal which do not kill to survive , but help others to survive Bees never attack , they just protect their home as You do Your home, never come in Your house as other insects The easy way ,and the cheap way for the most lazy people is just don't cut the GRASS, in few years seeds will come and hundred of different plants will grow up and some will be good for bees
Don't bother. WW3 will be fought (hopefully never ever) between the warmongering, Al-Qaeda-loving, peace-raping USA/NATO/Israel and anti-imperialist jihadi-destroying Russia/China/Iran but over oxygen? Nah. Just keep growing nectar-producing plants for the pollinators and it's all good.
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I always make sure I have plenty of flowers in my garden and my yard for the bee's! 🐝🐝
It's so important to grow plants for bees 🐝 throughout the year 👍
This is so informative! I am determined to make my land a safe haven for bees, butterflies and birds. Thank you!
Thank you for this bee lesson 🐝. I share the love of flowers & nature. The bees work to embellish our life, let's help them too! 💛👍
Great presentation! This is the exact starting point I was looking for. We just bought a house on 2.5 acre and I wanna make it as bee friendly as I can.
Trees are one of the most important sources of food for bees. For example: two lime trees give as much nectar as an acre of clover. Pussy willows offer bee food a month earlier than dandelions.
Excellent video, this should be a PSA. The first spring in my house, 2017, there was a flowering tree along the fence a "red bud". It was in bloom and covered with large carpenter bees, like hundreds. The next year the population visiting was hardly noticeable, the most at any given time could have been 10 or less, probably more, but certainly not hundreds. I have no idea why or how this happened, they never returned to that volume. Maybe that first year other sources they usually pursue were less abundant for some reason? Unfortunately I don't have history prior to that first year. I notice these carpenter bees really enjoy the Agastache flowers and lavender flowers are enjoyed by some other type of bees.
Thanks for this video! Funny enough, I needed to hear "ornamental grasses" to know what I've been searching for. Never could figure out what they're called. I promise not to plant too many now that I've seen your video though. :)
Such a useful source, thank you so much for making this information available for free!
Thank you for distilling this information so succinctly! I have read that some grasses are actually preferred by some native species of bee and provide overwintering habitat for them, so it is worth considering establishing a few tussocks in a meadow or bed (though they might proliferate quickly in a bare flower bed).
Cock's foot is an example of a UK native that honeybees enjoy. The US surely has equivalents.
My favorite bee friendly plant is the wild sunflower. It blooms all summer. They should have a web cam somewhere focused on bees feeding on a plant. I love watching bees work.
When you plant flowers to grow in tiers, do plant on flat soil??? Or berms?? I like how the tiers looks in the landscape. 🥰 It appears the plants are pointed toward the path.
I have large patches of a mauve wallflower called Erysimum Bowles's Mauve. The bees LOVE it! And although there are less flowers in Winter, it does flower all year round, here in the South or England. I let the back of my garden grow wild as well, to help them out. The Butterflies love that. I'm going to plant lots of nasturtiums too, as they grow easy and the cabbage butterflies love to lay their eggs on them. I spray soapy water to get rid of aphids rather than insecticides. Works really well, and doesn't seem to affect the bees and butterflies. :)
You probably should leave the aphids even though we call em a pest they are beneficial for ladybugs 🐞 to feed on. All insects are important. Weeds and pest are a human concept not nature. It’s al part of a healthy live cycle 😊😊
Very interesting Ideas . Thanks for being out there .
Very useful, great info...Thanks for sharing.
I love the video and i love bees also so i would start my garden with some flowers so the bees will pollinate my tomatoes etc
Love nature , love bees too
Great! Looking for ideas in my apiary this season. This is helpful :)
Very informative thank you!
What a lovely informative video thank you for sharing and teaching us. I just purchased two bags of mulch today and now I feel guilty. What do you suggest I use in lieu of mulch?
We moved a few months ago and will be redoing the back yard with a vegetable garden and lots of flower beds around the bee hives. I can't read the chart that I am seeing at 4:11 in the video. Can you pass along where I can see it full screen? Thanks!
Hi Andrea, I loved this video, very informative! I just wish people stop eating honey and harming bees! Without them, we just wouldn't survive!
Tuirapanui .Well you are poorly educated, with bee keepers there are way many more colonies of bees than if they where on there own to service, and harming bees I don’t think so, honey is healthy also and are you going to tell the birds to stop eating bees because there harming the bees. Natural honey Hunter’s since man found bees , they did harm the bees colonies because they didn’t know how to get the honey , good luck with stopping people from eating honey.
Never mind... I see you provided the link.... should read down further...ha!
thank you for sharing! do you have a link to the chart that shows flowers throughout the seasons?
I'd like this too.
Go crazy:
www.google.ca/search?q=flower+blooming+chart&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitmNjXs_7ZAhUnyoMKHU94DYIQ_AUICigB&biw=843&bih=793&dpr=1.13#imgrc=_
#SAVETHEBEES
Can you please post a link to download the sheet you have at 4.06? Thank you!
You mean the American Indiens never had all those fruit and nuts that you mentioned since they did not have honey bees?
Honey bees were brought over by the Europeans.
Honeybees are just one of over 16,000 species of bees. There are many species of bees that pollinate that are native to North America, such as bumblebees.
There are different species of bees......
What would you suggest for urban areas with limited space? Thanks
Bee hives on flat rooftops.
Container gardening. For starters, almost all cooking fine herbs (basil, mint, oregano, etc) are very respectable for pollinators.
Lawns should be outlawed. The lawn mentality should be ridiculed.
Do you have the blooming chart available to share or a link to it?
www.google.ca/search?q=flower+blooming+chart&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitmNjXs_7ZAhUnyoMKHU94DYIQ_AUICigB&biw=843&bih=793&dpr=1.13#imgrc=_
Does Neem Oil affect bees?
Conversation Robot I've been looking into neem oil for my herbs and it's sounds like all it does is keep insects from eating your plants. You combine it with a specific soap and spray it over the leaves and stems where insects will eat. It's the best insect repellent out there because it's safe human consumption, the environment, and it doesn't directly kill most insects. I would just make sure to spray it before and after blooming to avoid ruining the pollen. Although, i know that many rose gardeners will spray it all over their open flowers regardless (this is probably because they tend to use them for sales and not food for bees).
Awesome, thanks.
Neem oil doesn’t impact bees or other pollinators, only Azadirachtin like mosquitoes and stink bugs
american capitalism has foisted monoculture crops on the world, vast fields where everything but the crop is bludgeoned into submission. its all well and good that gardeners do their bit and refuse to buy grotesque and unnatural double flowers, but unless farmers and large scale landowners change their ways...we humans are f*cked as a species. we need all of our (uk) farmers to put back the hedges they ripped up, replace all the ponds they filled in and restore the flower rich meadows they vandalised in the pursuit of efficiency or profit. i can forgive the wartime generation, who were incentivised to wreck the countryside, but farmers of the 21st century should be custodians and stewards of the land and put right what was done out of ignorance by their predecessors. there is hope for the uk,
Tomatoes are air pollinated sooo no
Air pollination can occur, but it isn't the only way. In places such as where I live where wind isn't strong enough to pollinate, people either rely on bees and insects, or they hand-pollinate. Many seed sites talk about hand pollination and the roles bees play in tomato pollination.
Hmm, I know people who plant bee-attracting flowers into their large farm tomato greenhouses to support bee pollination, it seems to be a practice...
I keep bees for much more important problem, Oxygen, it is producing by plants, trees, they need bees
Oxygen in 1900 was 23 %, now is 21%...demand for oxygen is more and more, productions is less and less, why
because You have more roof tops and roads, cars and coal power stations...and many more but forest is less and less
Third World War will be for Oxygen. The bees are very rear animal which do not kill to survive , but help others to survive
Bees never attack , they just protect their home as You do Your home, never come in Your house as other insects
The easy way ,and the cheap way for the most lazy people is just don't cut the GRASS, in few years seeds will come
and hundred of different plants will grow up and some will be good for bees
If true a scarry fact. Where can I go to verify this?
Don't bother. WW3 will be fought (hopefully never ever) between the warmongering, Al-Qaeda-loving, peace-raping USA/NATO/Israel and anti-imperialist jihadi-destroying Russia/China/Iran but over oxygen? Nah.
Just keep growing nectar-producing plants for the pollinators and it's all good.
"I keep bees"... Do you mean you have a beehive and STEAL their honey??? That would be really hypocrite...
@@Tuirapanui not all beekeepers do it for profit, so they may have a give in their yard just to support them.