{"id":1545,"date":"2018-05-18T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:35:38","slug":"bees-savoring-the-fruits-of-their-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2018\/05\/18\/bees-savoring-the-fruits-of-their-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees: Savoring the Fruits of Their Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summertime is watermelon season, and while you bite into that juicy watermelon, do you stop and think about the bees that made the existence of the melon possible for you? Whether bees are part of a managed colony <\/a><\/span>or wild bees<\/a><\/span>, whether they are honey bees, bumble bees, or mason bees, they spend their days pollinating<\/a> the fruits, vegetables, and flowers that you enjoy! <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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A rusty patched bumble bee from the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab’s Photostream.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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Bee populations have been on the decline<\/a> in recent years, and the rusty patched bumble bee is an endangered species<\/a> in the Midwest.\u00a0Luckily, there are simple and easy ways that you can roll a welcome mat out for bees\u00a0where you live.\u00a0You can cultivate native pollinator plants<\/a>, reduce your use of pesticides, and if you are really feeling the buzz, use this identification guide Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0participate as a citizen scientist in Bumble Bee Watch<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bees do sting, so refrain from petting these fuzzy little creatures. This 1991 government poster found in the Iowa Digital Library says it best:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summertime is watermelon season, and while you bite into that juicy watermelon, do you stop and think about the bees that made the existence of the melon possible for you? Whether bees are part of a managed colony or wild bees, whether they are honey bees, bumble bees, or mason bees, they spend their days pollinating the fruits,Continue reading “Bees: Savoring the Fruits of Their Labor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":1547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51],"tags":[52,53],"syndication":[41,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}