“Watching the huge plumes of wild bees of EVERY size and description, hundreds and hundreds, swarming with great industry over our cilantro bed [which is in full flower]
I can only conclude that if you plant it,
and then • let it bolt, and go to seed •
they will come…maybe there would be more bees if we all just set the table for them?
Maybe the REAL shortage lies in the bees not having enough of the right kind of organic flowers…and the smaller the bloom, the more popular they are:
dill, cilantro, oregano, catnip, celery, onion, mustard, bok choy, broccoli, let them go to flower!”
–George Stoddard
“Wild insects pollinate crops more effectively because an increase in their visitation enhanced fruit set by twice as much as an equivalent increase in honey bee visitation. A high abundance of managed honey bees supplemented — but doesn’t substitute [for] — pollination by wild insects.”
From: http://grist.org/news/
Cathy says
Hi George
Yes your right the smaller the bloom the more the bees love the blooms. My figwort and valerian hasvery small blooms and of course bees love it! Bumblebees love my comfrey flowers. The mason bees really like wood betony blooms.
We are being chemtrailed and haarped to death, maybe this has something to do with bee losses?
Regards
Cathy