Berkeley is bee friendly

Good news from Berkeley. Parks are focusing on attracting more bees by planting more bee friendly flowers.

The City Council is poised to transform all the city’s parks and open spaces into habitats for bees. If the council approves the resolution, all future landscaping would be “pollinator-friendly” flowering native plants intended to attract bees, bats, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, beetles and flies…

…Park users should not worry about stumbling across a hive and being attacked by a swarm of irate bees, she said. Most native bees live alone in the ground or hollow tree trunks, and only the females can sting.

Read the article on SF Gate.


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