2nd Annual Honey Bee Festival 2017 Date: March 25th!
Interested in being a vendor or part of the entertainment? Email: alma@sarasotahoney.com to receive vendor/entertainment packet. Sarasota Honey Company’s The 1st Annual Honey Bee Festival A Total Success!!! The Lab Has BEEN FUNDED!!!! Thank you to all that attended this fun event, see you March 18th for our 2nd Annual Honey Bee Festival!
In partnership with Sweetgrass Farms
Benefiting the creation of the Florida Honey Bee Research Lab to Save the Bees Overflow Parking will
Preventing Pesticide Kills – University of Georgia
Apply pesticides in the evening Many pesticides are extremely toxic to honey bees and other beneficial insects. Honey bees are attracted to blooming flowers of all types. If at all possible do not spray blooms directly with pesticides. If the bloom needs to be sprayed, apply the pesticides in the evening hours. Honey bees forage during daylight hours when the temperatures are above 55-60°F. As the sun begins to set, they return to their hives for the evening. Thus, spraying p
The Effect of Pesticides on Bees – University of Georgia
Pesticides are substances used to eliminate unwanted pests. Insecticides rid us of unwanted insects. Unfortunately, honey bees are insects and are greatly affected by insecticides. There are several ways honey bees can be killed by insecticides. One is direct contact of the insecticide on the bee while it is foraging in the field. The bee immediately dies and does not return to the hive. In this case the queen, brood and nurse bees are not contaminated and the colony survives
Save the Bees: Don’t use Pesticides or Chemicals!
Yes, they make your lawn look pristine and pretty, but they’re actually doing the opposite to the life in your biosphere. The chemicals and pest treatments you put on your lawn and garden can cause damange to the honeybees systems. These treatments are especially damaging if applied while the flowers are in bloom as they will get into the pollen and nectar and be taken back to the bee hive where they also get into the honey—which in turn means they can get into us. Pesticides
Save The Bees: There is no such thing as bad weeds
Contrary to popular belief, a lawn full of clover and dandelions is not just a good thing—it’s a great thing! A haven for honeybees (and other native pollinators too). Don’t be so nervous about letting your lawn live a little. Wildflowers, many of which we might classify as weeds, are some of the most important food sources for native North American bees. If some of these are “weeds” you chose to get rid of (say you want to pull out that blackberry bush that’s taking over), l
Attracting Beneficial Bees – By Kathy LaLiberte
Gardeners can help counter the decline in pollinator populations As an avid gardener, I’m fortunate to have Russell Devino as a neighbor. Russell is one of the Vermont’s top beekeepers, and though he has his own apple orchard and garden, I know his bees consider my garden their real home. Summer mornings my yard is humming with activity. The poppies are bent low under the weight of the bees that crowd every blossom. Bees blanket the thyme and oregano. My “lawn”, which has mor
List of Bee Friendly Plants and Herbs
Spring and Summer Bulbs Purple flowering onions (Allium spp.) Golden crocus (Crocus x luteus) Bishop Series dahlias* (Dahlia) Winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) Grape hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum) Siberian squill (Scilla sibirica) Perennials and Biennials Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) Lesser calamint (Calamintha nepeta) Cornflowers (Centaurea spp.) Gas plant (Dictamnus albus) Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) Globe thistles (
How to Save The Bees: Plant Bee Friendly Herbs and Plants in Your Garden
Bees are losing habitat all around the world due to intensive monoculture-based farming practices (large farms of one crop), pristine green (but flower-barren) sprawling suburban lawns and from the destruction of native landscapes. Just planting flowers in your garden, yard, or in a planter will help provide bees with forage. Avoid chemically treating your flowers as chemicals can leach into pollen and negatively affect the bees systems. Plant plenty of the same type of bloom
Why Save The Bees?
We should help save honey bees because while grains do not require honey bees to flourish, virtually all of our non-grain foods are dependent on honey bee pollination to a large degree. Worldwide, there are 90 different food plants that depend almost exclusively on the honey bee. In the USA honey bees are considered critical pollinators of many fruits, nuts and vegetables. Many of the animals we eat are also depended on the food bees pollinate. Your own diet will be changed
Recovery from Pesticide Exposure – University of Georgia
Colonies that have been exposed to pesticides may recover if proper steps are taken. If a colony has lost a majority of its field force but has plenty of honey and pollen it will usually recover without any help from the beekeeper. If brood and nurse bees continue dying, the pesticide is present in the hive, probably in the pollen supplies. The colony will continue to die as long as the poison remains in the hive. In these cases the combs must be cleaned or removed. Soak the
