<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px">How can we help bees and ensure that farmers continue to get consistent, reliable pollination? A new video (</span><span style="line-height:1.5"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGaMD5BFMU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGaMD5BFMU</a>) </span><span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px">produced by the </span><a href="http://www.projecticp.org/" style="font-family:inherit;line-height:24px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(87,173,104);text-decoration:none"><font color="#57ad68" face="inherit"><span style="line-height:24px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Integrated Crop Pollination Project</span></font><span class="inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:inherit;line-height:24px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(87,173,104);text-decoration:none"> </span></a>(<a href="http://www.projecticp.org">www.projecticp.org</a>) <span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px">reviews recent research on one solution: adding wildflowers to field edges. Planting flowers, especially before and after crops bloom, is a key way in which farmers can ensure their crop pollinators stay healthy through the season and produce abundant offspring for the next year.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px"><br></span></div><div><p style="border:0px;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(29,29,29);line-height:24px">To read more, visit <a href="http://icpbees.org/new-video-the-benefits-of-planting-flowers-for-bees/">http://icpbees.org/new-video-the-benefits-of-planting-flowers-for-bees/</a>. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(29,29,29);line-height:24px">This research is supported by the USDA-NIFA Specialty Crop Research Initiative Coordinated Agricultural Project (Award #2012-51181-20105). The video was produced on behalf of the Integrated Crop Pollination Project by Emily May and Katharina Ullmann (<a href="http://www.xerces.org/" style="font-family:inherit;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(87,173,104);text-decoration:none">The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</a>).<br></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(29,29,29);line-height:24px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">Enjoy!</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(29,29,29);line-height:24px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">Emily</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(29,29,29);line-height:24px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal">-- </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-family:arial"><b>Emily May</b><br>Pollinator Conservation Specialist</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:arial">Integrated Crop Pollination Project</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:arial"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:arial"><img width="200" height="75" src="https://docs.google.com/a/xerces.org/uc?id=0BwCLUvQs8GwqbHdvRkpuRmkwRzA&export=download"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:arial"><br></p></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Protecting the Life that Sustains Us</b><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Stay in touch:     <b><span style="color:rgb(103,207,227)"><a href="http://www.xerces.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(103,207,227)">xerces.org</span></a></span></b>      <b><u><span style="color:rgb(33,174,73)"><a href="http://www.xerces.org/blog/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(33,174,73)">Xerces blog</span></a></span></u></b>     <b><span style="color: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