Comments for Plan Bee Central

Comment on About Us by schacker

schacker — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:29:25 +0000

Thank you so much! –Barbara Dean Schacker

Comment on About Us by Barbara Patrizzi

Barbara Patrizzi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:43 +0000

I wrote a letter to the editor in Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Mentioned the book.

Comment on PLAN BEE STEP #1 – PLANT A BEE GARDEN! by Barbara Schacker

Barbara Schacker — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:24:47 +0000

Plan to add plants to your garden that attract beneficial insects. This is one way you can avoid using pesticides on your garden. For example, plant sunflowers to attract lacewing flies, the natural enemies of aphids.

Here is a good article about this:

http://www.audubon.org/bird/at_home/PlantsForBeneficialInsects.html

Comment on About Us by Cathy Chadwick

Cathy Chadwick — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:04:30 +0000

Dear Michael,
I recently read your book fighting my own anger and sadness over the messages that Rachel Carson sent us years back that we have yet to really take in and act on. I contacted your publicist offering to write a review of the book. He turned me down but sent me the cover art for the paperback which I have posted on my website along with the information about this website. I am not a beekeeper but I have bees on my property and sell honey and candles so I get questions all the time about what is happening to the bees. I’m so glad to have someplace to send people where they can receive concrete suggestions and information. I’ve been posting the photo of your paperback cover and the website when I have a table at local crafts shows. My business is a small one and the Website a cheap homegrown outreach, but I’ve received more comments than ever in response to this information. Many people around the area know that there’s a problem, but most of them have read conflicting information about the cause and they just don’t know there’s anything they can do about it.

I’d like to be of more help. My farm is in Ipswich, MA on the North Shore 45 minutes NE of Boston. There are people in the area who have lost hives to CCD but thankfully not my beekeeper. We have a lot of open space here and a high level of awareness about environmental issues so I think that’s why there have not been many issues here, yet. Please let me know what I can do. Thank you so much for your informative, clear and very readable book about a difficult subject. I hope your health is improving. We need you voice right now.

Comment on About Us by helen faraday young

helen faraday young — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:19:46 +0000

Best wishes to Michael. This is a great site.
Can I help in any way? I’m local (Hudson)-
I contacted you months ago about Bee Native hoping you could come to launch party-which then got postponed. We are doing OK but donations are low. just been to the First Organic Beekeeper’s Conference in Leominster. Michael was referred to constantly.It was fascinating and felt very luck to be there.

Comment on About Us by Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:59:46 +0000

Hello,

I had been following the news of the disappearance of the Bees for several years, but, did not
understand the cause and effect of the chemicals until reading your book this weekend. Upon opening
my regular news emails at work today, I found an article that led to this EPA ruling from last week against
IMD and 73 other toxins that now must be tested. Although you are probably well aware of this decision,
in case you had not seen it, there is a commentary period that you might want to help with. It also will
be an excellent test case to see if the bees in this small part of California will rebound with the removal
of these chemicals.

Warm Regards and thanks for writing such an eye opening book.

Oliver

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0481

Comment on Plant a BEE Tree! by schacker

schacker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:06:32 +0000

Hi Hilary,

Post number 8 above explains what we have found out about about Silver Lindens and reports of toxicity. I think to be safe we should consider planting native linden trees, the American Linden for example. The Evodana tree is also called the “Bee Tree” but it is not native to the U.S. So that depends on if you feel strongly about planting only native varieties. Planting variety of flowering trees, shrubs, vines and perennials is, according to Chris Harp, bee doctor, beekeeper and instructor, most helpful as it feeds the young bees a varied diet over whole spring, summer and fall season makes honeybees stronger and more resistant to stress and toxins. Honeybees are genetically designed for a varied diet and so one theory on this is when they eat only Silver Linden nectar to excess they might die from digestive imbalance or metabolism crash–sort of like a diabetic coma. For more expert advice on this issue, you might contact Chris Harp at Honeybeelives.org

Comment on Plant a BEE Tree! by Hilary Cheese

Hilary Cheese — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:05:54 +0000

Please can you clear up some confusion. I have been looking up the Silver Linden Tree and found several references on reputable websites (eg plants for a future) to the fact that it is poisonous to bees. Am I looking at the right plant? Do you have a latin name for the tree you are recommending please?

Comment on Plant a BEE Tree! by Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:03:51 +0000

Try planting a BeeBee Tree – they are very useful, not only to bees but many other animals/insects, and they are pretty and smell good for several months.

For more info… http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/EVODANA.pdf

For more info and to purchase visit… http://www.tuscarawascountybeeclub.com/beebee.htm

Comment on Another Spring Without Bees by Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:25:29 +0000

Here's a nice article about taking advantage of underused space in Pittsburgh to create apiaries: Bees in the 'Burgh

"Burgh Bees is intent on developing gentle but strong urban bees, in addition to developing urban beekeepers,"