[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Should we tell them?

[Julie Serences]

Of course, you all have seen this Guinness World Record Bee Hotel  in
Somerset.       Mmm...

http://tomtobia.tumblr.com/post/12120945930/worlds-largest-bee-hotel-co-built-habitat-at

Julie Serrences





On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Peter Bernhardt bernhap2 at slu.edu
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> 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."
>
> 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.
>
>  "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.
>
> 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.
>
> Peter
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