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Gardener alarmed by near-absence of bees in wild meadow
Original: # gardening crew, I’m a little concerned and need some bee advice. I leave my little meadow wild at the end of the year
A gardener who leaves a small meadow uncut at the end of the year to give pollinators a late-season food source says only a handful of bees have turned up this fall, and is asking fellow gardeners for advice on what might be behind the collapse in numbers. Responses are focused on whether weather, mowing schedules, pesticide drift or broader pollinator declines could explain the empty meadow.
Why now: Reports of missing pollinators resonate because bee declines are a widespread and worrying environmental trend.
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- # gardening crew, I’m a little concerned and need some bee advice. I leave my little meadow wild at the end of the year to give pollinators a place to fuel up before winter. This fall there has been nothing but a few stragglers that I can count on one hand. Is this because in… · jamescragle@mastodon.world · 6
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