Gardner Salahi's List: Recommendations

• Team B.E.E.S. learned how to raise honeybees,

• Co-op bans eight pesticides after worldwide beehive collaps

• The mysterious disappearance of bee colonies perplexes scientists and impacts our agricultural systems, which in turn, directly impacts human beings.
• Through an in-depth study of bees, their life cycles, social structures, communication, pollination, and their role in sustaining life on our planet, students will discover how we are connected to these tiny creatures and what we can do to help their populations survive.
   
   “By combining those two critical ideas, students will be able to understand our interdependence on these pollinators and how they directly relate to our well being.”

• has banned the use of pesticides in the neonicotinoid family of pesticides, which includes imidacloprid, implicated in the death of honey bees world wide.

• But there was a time when beekeeping was much more of a hobby than a commercial industry.
• it can strengthen the bee gene pool by adding healthy local bees to the mix.
• merely keeping a backyard bee garden is another good deed you can do for the honeybees
• Cultivating plants that will attract bees is the most important task of a bee gardene
• Researchers have found that more bees will be drawn to gardens with ten or more species of attractive plants.
• let those dandelions grow.
• Some pesticides can kill the bee before it returns to the hive; other pesticides get carried back and can harm the rest of the hi
• buying pesticide-free foods at the market also protects humans and bees from pesticide poisons.
• rite to their senators and representatives in congress on the federal level and to do the same on the state level to support funding of honeybee research
• Large or small, any effort you make to help bees or increase awareness is a step towards healthy bees, healthy crops, and, consequently, healthy humans.

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• The need for host plants for larvae and energy sources for adults applies to all monarch and butterfly populations around the world.
• Milkweeds and nectar sources are declining due to development and the widespread use of herbicides in croplands, pastures and roadsides. Because 90% of all milkweed/monarch habitats occur within the agricultural landscape, farm practices have the potential to strongly influence monarch populatio
• consuming habitats
• Development
• Genetically Modified Crops
• e need you to help us and help monarchs by creating "Monarch Waystations" (monarch habitats) in home gardens, at schools, businesses, parks, zoos, nature centers, along roadsides, and on other unused plots of land.
• By creating and maintaining a Monarch Waystation you are contributing to monarch conservation, an effort that will help assure the preservation of the species and the continuation of the spectacular monarch migration phenomeno

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• Another factor that severely restricts   its population is that its preferred food plant is the early blue or dog   violet (Viola adunca). This beautiful little violet, once prevalent on   Washington's Long Beach peninsula and other places, is now disappearing   as its habitat is gobbled up by development.
• violet  plants are propagated by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s  Dave Hays and then raised by horticulture students at Aberdeen High  School.
• hrough these  efforts,  and  the  protection of damaged grasslands,

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