Photos of native bees and honeybees on native and nonnative plants in Oregon

Travis O enoster@hotmail.com
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:02:59 PDT
Hello,

The following is a link to a variety of photos of Oregon native bees and honeybees on Oregon native and nonnative plants (some bulbs, too), with some cynical commentary on the subject.

http://amateuranthecologist.com/2016/07/…

Surely I'll be preaching to the choir when I say that something must be done to help the pollinators. I feel it is necessary to reduce the problem to an economic issue, hence my reference to a Xerces Society study (Losey et al. 2006) estimating $57 billion in ecological services provided by insects annually (including pest reduction by predatory/parasitoid insects), since it is clear that economy is more important than environment in the minds of many. Conservation needs to become a profitable endeavor on a scale much larger than is currently possible.

Travis Owen
Rogue River, OR

http://www.amateuranthecologist.com/
http://www.oldsolbees.com/
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/




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