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Bee Informed: "Perfect Lawns", Endangered Bees, and Tracking Bee Health with eBird Data

Bee Informed: "Perfect Lawns", Endangered Bees, and Tracking Bee Health with eBird Data

Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability. 1. Do you have a glossy green front lawn? What is this, the 1950s? Are our conceptions of gardening outdated and harming the planet? It turns out, yes, they are! So what should we do? Check out this article in The Guardian to learn how the "perfect lawn" is harming our pollinators and guidance on how you can create and maintain a pollinator-friendly garden. 2. Feds’ Plan To Save Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Misses Mark, Critics Say Four years after...

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