Honey Bee Gardening
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How to create a honey bee friendly garden. Tips on what to plant and why we should protect the honey bee.
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Honey Bee Gardening
- 1. BEE AWARE Bee Friendly Landscaping By Rhonda Crum of BeeHoneyHealthy.Com
- 3. • Retired from New Vienna Elementary School-35 yrs. • Owner of Bee Honey Healthy • New Vienna Village Council Member • GED Facilitator – SSCC • Backyard Beekeeper About Me
- 4. 1. Increase awareness of bees in our food production. 2. Increase awareness of bee health and our responsibility associated with it. 3. Create a bee friendly environment. Three Objectives
- 5. • 25,000 Species in the World • 3,500 Species in the U.S. • Queen Lays 2,000+ Eggs a Day/2-3 yrs. • Worker Bees-60,000-80,000 in each hive –summer/2-4 months • Drone-male-300-3,000/hive- die after mating • Bees maintain the temperature in the hive at 93 degrees during the winter About Bees
- 6. • Fly 55,000 miles visiting 2 million flowers = 1 pound honey • 80% of insect crop pollination is accomplished by honey bees • Valued at $14.6 billion per year Pollination
- 7. • California produces more than half of the world’s almonds • 1,000,000 colonies of bees are moved to California • 300,000 colonies are rented each year to pollinate melons Agriculture
- 8. • Almond • Apple • Avocado • Blueberry • Cherry • Cranberry • Cucumber • Kiwi fruit • Pear • Plum Crops
- 9. “The value of honey bees can not be measured by their ability to produce honey alone – rather; it must include the work bees do for agricultural crops, home gardens and wildlife habitat.” Nicholas Calderone, PH.D. Cornell University
- 10. • Varroa mites, Nosema • Viruses, Fungus • Pesticides and Herbicides • Loss of Habitat-less foraging • Malnutrition/transporting Colony Collapse Disorder Varroa Mite
- 11. What can YOU do? • Increase demand for bee products • Plant a flower/vegetable garden • Use natural pesticides/herbicides • Become a beekeeper • Become an advocate • Seek assistance –Local Ext. Office
- 12. Bee Friendly Plants • Alyssum • Apples • Autumn Joy Sedum • Azalea • Chives • Crocus • Lambs Ear • Lavender • Roses • Sage
- 18. References • National Honey Board • Vanishing Bees-UK • Backyard Beekeepers Association • Silence of the Bees-PBS • Beevenom.com-Canada • Photobucket.com • Durhamsbeefarm.com • Naturepedic.com • Scrummys.blogspot.com • Roamingtimes.com/environment/images/pesticides • AI Root Company/Bee Culture Magazine • OSU Beekeepers Association • Mid Atlantic Apiculture and Extension Consortium • Beeinformed.org • http://beelab.osu.edu/factsheets/sheets/2168.html
- 19. Connect! • BeeHoneyHealthy.com • Facebook /beehoneyhealthy • Twitter @beehoneyhealthy • Pinterest /ronicrum
Editor's Notes
- Good morning! Thank you for this opportunity to share with you! Thank you Margaret for the invitation! Beekeepers? What did you eat for breakfast??? Coffee,fruit,flaxseed,cashews,honey, were pollinated by a honey bee. I had yogurt with honey, coffee and an apple ¾ pollinated by bees! Soap making and bee keeping are on my bucket list.
- Medina- near Cleveland-Home of the AI Root- In 1865 Amos Ives Root bought a swarm of bees for $1.00, 1904 AI Root drove 200 miles to watch one of the initial test flights of the Wright brothers. 1920’s beeswax candles, 96 workers, largest company in medina, my dad and grandfather worked there during the depression. They were thankful for the work….I head numerous stories over the years about bees….in 1950’s known as the “Sweetest Town on Earth”. He also wrote the book “ABC nd XYZ of Bee Culture” Today the AI Root company has 183,000 sq. feet of production and storage…. I marched in the Medina band (The Medina Bees Marching 100) They currently have about 350 band members.
- Mites on bees and larva,Nosema/Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (packaged bees from Austrailia), Pesticides interfere with digestion and memory, wax moth, small hive beetles, skunks, bear and ants. Perfect Storm…..
- Point to pictures and name the pest and parasite.
- Point to pictures and name the pest and parasite.
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- Zinnias