Calling all citizen scientists! The Great Sunflower Project gathers information about honey bees throughout the US and Canada. Anyone who wants to help, can aid them in reaching their goal of documenting bee pollination and developing strategies to protect and restore native bees where they are threatened. All you need to do is: 1) grow sunflowers, 2) spend a few minutes each week counting the bees that visit them, and 3) send them your data (by snail mail or online entry).
What a great excuse to sit in a lawn chair, relaxing with some coffee/tea/beer/cocktails, admiring your beautiful sunflower garden.
I tried to participate last year, but when my sunflower seedlings were a couple of inches high, some critter decided they would make a delicious snack :(. I had planted three packets of them, too! This year, I'll be ready with my row covers.
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