Our little natives are out there, working hard-

The tens of thousands of native pollinator species in the U.S. are hard at work, but lots of times growers don’t appreciate just how much pollination they perform – free of charge.  Dr. Suzanne Batra, of the USDA’s Bee Research Lab in Maryland, conducted a 3-year study to discover the natural mix of bees in a West Virginia forest.  She found that, of the 1,700 bees trapped in the first year of the study, only 34 (2%) were honey bees.

This means that native bees were performing almost ALL the pollination.

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