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Toxins that affect pollinators

One of the best ways to support healthy hives is to provide ample foraging.  Keeping a garden that provides not just nectar, pollen and habitats, but also refrains from using toxic pesticides will go a long way towards helping bees and other pollinators. Check out products to avoid:

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Swarm Removal

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Honey Bee Swarms

  A swarm of honeybees is a familiar sight in the spring and summer. There is no telling where a swarm might land. It could land on any convenient resting place: a bush, a tree branch, a lamppost, or patio furniture. Honeybee swarms cluster together for protection and warmth in a temporary resting place. In the center of this ball is their queen. The swarming bees do not stay there long. As soon as scout bees find a nice suitable and protected home, the swarm will be up and away.  With the declining number of honeybees (and beekeepers), we want to help where we can.

Below are telephone numbers and locations of members of the St. Croix Valley Beekeepers Association who can assist in honeybee swarm removal. We anticipate success in capturing these swarms to develop productive honey colonies which will continue to pollinate our environment Our members will make every effort to remove and take the honeybee swarm with them upon their visit. They will not remove embedded or permanent dwelling structures where honeybees have set up a home, unless this member has the proper equipment & skills to do so.  


For more information: https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2012/5-16/swarms.html

Swarm Removal Contacts

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Bees & Honey: Creating Pollinator Gardens

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Flowers for the Bees, Birds, and Butterflies
https://www.avasflowers.net/blog/flowers-for-the-bees-birds-and-butterflies/


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https://widnr.widen.net/s/rfsbfc22w6/nh0698

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