<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Of course, you all have seen this Guinness World Record Bee Hotel in Somerset. Mmm...</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://tomtobia.tumblr.com/post/12120945930/worlds-largest-bee-hotel-co-built-habitat-at">http://tomtobia.tumblr.com/post/12120945930/worlds-largest-bee-hotel-co-built-habitat-at</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Julie Serrences</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><div style="font-family:arial"><font face="georgia, serif"><span><b><span style="color:green;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt"><br></span></b></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></p></div><font face="arial"><i></i></font></span><i></i></font></i></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Peter Bernhardt <a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a> [beemonitoring] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p></p><div dir="ltr">Has anyone been to a Whole Foods store in the last couple of weeks? A week ago I went in to buy a piece of fish. When I entered the vegetable section I was greeted by two women who announced that "Pollinators are Endangered." I was invited to make a "bug hotel" to attract them to my garden. Yes, they were assembling twigs and broken stalks into balls secured by wire. I told them that the most recent publication on these bee motels is that they were not good for bees (most are ground nesters) and were more likely to attract bee predators like certain wasps. One of the Whole Food Employees was miffed. She snapped, "Good, I love wasps."<div><br></div><div>On the way out of the store more employees stood by a table offering tiny, shallow, pots the circumference of 50 cent pieces. There was dry, potting medium in the pots and they threw seeds of some composite (probably a coreopsis) on the surface."Would you like to learn how to garden with wildflowers and help our pollinators?" one asked. "I already garden with wildflowers," I replied. </div><div><br></div><div> "Well," if you go inside they will show you how to make a bug hotel." I repeated pretty much what I'd said to the hotel makers. I also suggested they might join NAPPC and explained the acronym. It seemed best to leave and not tell them that those seeds wouldn't do very well in such a tiny, shallow pot.</div><div><br></div><div>Here in St. Louis, the Whole Foods employees are quite young and they are always full of advice. Would it be possible for us to offer them accurate information? Currently, the St. Louis Zoo does a very nice job educating its members about pollinators during pollinator week in June. Our lab puts up posters, exhibits boxes of specimens. We sell some of our books and photos. </div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div></div>
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