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Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by cableshaft on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:03AM (#20231979)
I've had urges to start one, but we only have a normal-sized back yard and two dogs, and I don't think that would mix too well. I already know one of them will try to eat bees when given the chance and I don't want them to get stung.

Is there a way to help without actually starting your own bee colony?

Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by emerongi on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:17AM (#20232084)
If you live in a place that already has a good number of bees around: have pollinating plants, trees, bushes in your yard, possibly a (small) stream of water; know how to spot a swarm and have a bee-friend that you can call to collect the swarms.
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by coldpie on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:46AM (#20232300)
Depending on where you live, seeding your lawn with white clover is a low-cost and low-maintenance way to provide food for local bees.
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by riffraff on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:16AM (#20232078)
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by ahje on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:27AM (#20232668)
Leave the dandelions in the lawn for the pollinators. They attract tons of bees, bumblebees and butterflies.
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by cableshaft on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:08PM (#20236187)
I guess I did good by getting sick for a month right when spring was starting and between that and the rain I didn't bother mowing for awhile and the dandelions took over the front lawn :)
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by riffraff on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:18PM (#20245034)
they are also very tasty (you can eat many parts of them), and they will grow again if you leave the root in the ground :)
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by ahje on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:15AM (#20261450)
Bonus: Dandelion wine
Re:Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter by colechristensen on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:17PM (#20235639)
Grow locally native pollinator plants if you can, or any flowering plant.