Sentences with phrase «are attractive to bees»

Home gardeners who use insecticides are encouraged to avoid neonicotinoids, especially if they're growing plants that are attractive to bees.

Preferred habitat: prairies + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: winter rosette, leaves up to six inches + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, poor drainage okay + + + + Light conditions: full sun to partial shade + + + + Plant spacing: use only as accent, aggressive + + + + Wildlife value: flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies, especially Monarchs

Buckwheat flowers are very fragrant and are attractive to bees that use them to produce a special, strongly flavored, dark honey.

The discovery that nectar toxins are attractive to bees is not totally surprising (25 April, p 42).

The commission wants to ban the use of three «neonicotinoid» compounds — clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam — for 2 years on four crops that are attractive to bees: maize, cotton, sunflower, and rapeseed.

It's also a plant known for its honey; the flowers are attractive to bees and its pollen produces a dark and uniquely flavored honey.

Not exact matches

As colony collapse disorder and other maladies continue to devastate honeybee populations, researchers are turning their attention to alternative pollinators — the thousands of native bee species throughout the country — and are looking for ways to make croplands more attractive to these wild bees.

Additional lab tests showed that unaltered scent is attractive to a common type of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris); bees preferred spending time in scent - laced air over scent - free air, the researchers say.

We chose sunflowers because they are native to all 48 lower states, are wildly attractive to a lot of different bee species, provide food for birds in the fall, and are fun and easy to grow.

«Another advantage is that the fish bait is highly attractive to wasps but not bees,» says Spurr.

A recent pilot study3, 4 revealed that more than half of garden plants attractive to bees and sold at Home Depot and Lowe's are also pre-treated with pesticides that could be lethal to bees.

Linden trees flower in the spring and are immensely attractive to bees; the flowers also have medicinal uses.

If left to flower, it is attractive in garden and lures bees.