all bees are good so I suggest the SB Botanic Garden knock off all the bullshit!!
and shame on Noozhawk for spreading misinformation..that's where all the problems start!!
now I know we got some wacky nativists out there..their only vision of California is native plants and animals and they will spend tons of money burning and poisoning non-natives to reach the goal..some of the propaganda and rhetoric is just annoying because they can do real damage to the environment as they claim the non-natives are doing...
and now they are trying to demonize honeybees!! that's where I step in..I'm sick of these fucks
fact:
the Honeybee is not just any companion insect. It is perhaps humanity's most important companion insect. In fact, entomologists tell us that our survival as a species depends upon the Honeybee. Most of the fruits and vegetables humans depend upon for nutrition, fiber and variety depend upon Honeybees as pollinators. Without the Honeybee, humans would have to eat much more meat which is environmentally unfeasible, and nutritional needs would be disrupted. Even nuts and grains would be more rare.
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| dispersal is Nature's way |
the Botanical Garden in SB is a prime example..and I got this info slop from Noozhawk and some nutjob named Kathleen: Telleen-Lawton, who tries to minimize the importance of honeybees because she prefers "native" bees...
Karen Telleen-Lawton: Seeding the Future with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Noozhawk -
The Botanic Garden, in cooperation with the Natural ...The native habitat attracts native bees, which not only are more efficient pollinators for some crops such as tomatoes, but also work longer than European honeybees. Native bees tend to work earlier and later in the day, and also longer in the seasons. Native bumblebees are "buzz pollinators," according to Knapp. Their buzz frequency, a middle-C note, releases pollen — a trick honeybees can’t do.
so the Botanic Garden intends to kill all the bastard plants in a meadow to resurrect the native plants..they want to attract native bees only because they say the native bees are the only ones who can release pollen by wing vibration to the tune of middle C...NONSENSE!!
first of all it's not a trick and second of all honeybees can do it they just don't need to:
fact: In order to release the pollen, bumblebees and some species of solitary bees are able to grab onto the flower and move their flight muscles rapidly, causing the flower and anthers to vibrate, dislodging pollen. This resonent vibration is called buzz pollination. The honeybee rarely performs buzz pollination. About 8% of the flowers of the world are primarily pollinated using buzz pollination.
fact: The honey bee we all know (Apis mellifera) is, of course, native to Europe. It became naturalized in North America early enough that some scholars thought it had originated here. In "Notes on the State of Virginia," Thomas Jefferson wrote that the local Indians called it "the white man’s fly," indicating that once the bees showed up, European settlers were not far behind.
All the living honey bee species are confined to Europe and Asia. North America has the primitively social bumblebees and a host of solitary types, but no highly social (eusocial is the term) bees like A. mellifera.
But that wasn’t always the case. Engel, et al., found their bee, which they named Apis nearctica, in a fourteen-million-year-old shale formation in the Stewart Valley Basin in west-central Nevada. The remains were partially disarticulated, but enough components were there that it could be diagnosed as a honey bee. A. nearctica closely resembles a contemporary species from Germany, Apis armbrusteri. It was found in company with fossil ants and wasps, one group of which is characteristic of forested environments.
Through geological time, North America has had land connections with both Asia and Europe. During the Miocene epoch, when A. nearctica was extant, only the route from Asia—an early version of Beringia—was open.
so tell me, WTF does native mean??? NOTHING!!!!
The story of the Nevada honey bee illustrates once again that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It also underscores how much the fauna of North America, micro- as well as mega-, has changed over time, and how problematic the categories of native and alien can be. After all, the West’s feral horses could also be seen as returning natives, and there are those who would like to stock the Southwest with lions, camels, and elephants. (Let’s not even get started on the wild turkeys.)
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-11-05/article/34052?headline=Wild-Neighbors-Honey-Bees-in-America-Return-of-a-Native-
Let the Midnight Special shine her ever-loving light on me....
the carpenter bee is native to parts of the USA but the only flower that sings when it hears the C note is a non-native flower!!
The orphium flower from South Africa is pollinated by a certain bee. It only releases its pollen when it feels the vibration provided by the note ‘middle C’....
A pink gentian grows in southern Africa, which is pollinated by handsome furry carpenter bees. The flowers of the gentian spread their petals wide, revealing to all a curving white style and three large stamens. Each stamen ends in a long thick anther that seems to be covered in yellow pollen, an obvious temptation to any passing pollen-feeding insect. But that is something of an illusion. The yellow anther is hollow and the pollen is held inside. The only way it can escape is through a tiny hole right at the top of the anther and there is only one way of extracting it. The bee knows how.
"It arrives at the flower making a high-pitched buzzing noise with its wings as most bees do. As it alights on an anther, it continues beating its wings but lowers the frequency so that the note of its buzz suddenly falls to approximately middle C. This causes the anther to vibrate at just the right frequency needed to release the pollen and the grains spout out of the hole at the top in a yellow fountain." (Attenborough 1995:100)
ok so this little no-name ax I just found has a legendary gold-foil pick-up and screams and buzzes like a Giant Asian Hornet...middle C on this baby could make any flower give it up!!
Don't Use Poisons!
like the Botanic Garden is doing...and the Santa Barbara School District is doing...superintendent David Cash poisons squirrels!!! and endangers kids!!!
INEXCUSABLE!!! I'll have more on this idiot Cash later....
For the most part, poisons on your plants isn't a good idea, for poisons tend to be indiscriminate in their killing abilities. They kill the bad and the good insects alike. That means poisons kill good insects like Honeybees, Ladybugs and Praying Mantises. Plus, the killing is unfair, creepy, usually overkill and the residue is questionable.
What makes more sense is to plan, produce and maintain what might be called a living garden by integrating the predatory insects into the garden's ecosystem. Let Ladybugs, Lacewings and Praying Mantises keep the pest populations down. You won't have to worry about poisoning yourself and you'll come to notice the subtle meaning to the phrase, "a living garden , a gardener alive."
it is absolute insanity to pit honeybees against bumble bees so these nativists can get more money thru donations.....but I got something special planned for them....stay tuned
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