. ees serve an important role in our daily lives. We depend on them for the pollination and fertilization of flowers, fruits, and vegetables—the very food we eat. But they are endangered and desperately need our help. Due to pesticides, disease, and habitat loss, bees around the world are disappearing. For the sake of our own survival, we must help the honeybee. You can do this by starting your own fairy garden, a project children and parents can do together.
Bees serve an important role in our daily lives. We depend on them for the pollination and fertilization of flowers, fruits, and vegetables—the very food we eat. But they are endangered and desperately need our help. Due to pesticides, disease, and habitat loss, bees around the world are disappearing. For the sake of our own survival, we must help the honeybee. You can do this by starting your own fairy garden, a project children and parents can do together.
Help the bees by planting a Fairy Garden
Help the bees by planting
a Fairy Garden
You don’t have to be a professional beekeeper to help our friends. Simply start with a great location and add sun-loving plants, such as:
Asters Coneflowers Bee Balm Allium Sage Lavender Sunflowers Clematis Magnolias Buttercups Dahlias Foxgloves Wild Globe Thistle California Poppy Blue Flax
These plants will attract bees, butterflies, ladybugs and other flying friends, including fairies.
How bees stay busy
When a bee finds pollen, he returns to the same hive. There, he performs a dance, which tells other bees where to find the pollen. Foraging bees collect pollen and nectar to take back to the hive, transporting pollen from one flower to another in the process. In this way, they pollinate bushes, trees, and flowering plants, causing them to produce seeds and fruits for birds, small animals, and human beings.
Nectar is the raw material bees use to manufacture honey. It’s also the bee’s source of energy. Honeybees collect the nectar by placing their tongues inside the flower, sucking it up and storing it in their honey sac.
Pollen is an essential diet of honeybees. Without it the colony will not grow or develop. Dusted with pollen, the bees pack it into two pollen sacs or baskets on their hind legs, which they then carry back to their hive, where it is stored in cells.
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