{"id":92,"date":"2020-07-31T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:07:15","slug":"bee-mindful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/landscape\/bee-mindful\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Mindful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m not embarrassed to admit that I watched High School Musical more than your typical human as I was exiting my adolescent years.\u00a0 Had I not watched it, \u2018Down to Earth\u2019 on Netflix may have not caught my eye as quickly or at all.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zac Efron, lead character in High School Musical teamed up with a superfood junkie and traveled the world to film a documentary on sustainable living options.\u00a0 Boy, was it educating AND entertaining. \u00a0We have a lot to learn here in a American, its heart breaking to see how wasteful we are in comparison.\u00a0 Anyways, that\u2019s not where I\u2019m going with this. . . In episode 7, they travel to NYC to build a pollinator garden and learn about bee keeping. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heres what I learned-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pesticides vary in their effects on bees.\u00a0 Contact pesticides are usually sprayed on plants and will likely die after crawling over sprayed surface of the plant.\u00a0 Systemic pesticides, on the other hand are usually absorbed into the soil or plant and move up into the stem, leaves, nectar, and pollen of the plant.\u00a0 Of the contact pesticides, the dust and wettable varieties are most hazardous to bees than the concentrates.\u00a0 When a bee comes into contact with a pestiside that doesn\u2019t kill it immediately, it then carries that toxin back to the hive where it risks kill the entire colony.\u00a0 This issue is linked to Colony Collage Disorder.\u00a0 As actions are being taken to eliminate this problem, it is up to us as the gardeners to use these chemicals as little as possible.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Awareness of the issue is a solid start to solving the problem.\u00a0 Being such an agriculture-based state, it\u2019s impossible to not use these chemicals at all.\u00a0 It would take an unrealistic amount of man hours to prevent the bugs, weeds, and fungus\u2019 attacking our crops.\u00a0 We can however seek alternatives in smaller areas such as our personal gardens.\u00a0 Pinterest, gardening social media groups, and your local garden center are all great places to look for alternative resources. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not embarrassed to admit that I watched High School Musical more than your typical human as I was exiting my adolescent years.\u00a0 Had I not watched it, \u2018Down to Earth\u2019 on Netflix may have not caught my eye as quickly or at all.\u00a0 Zac Efron, lead character in High School Musical teamed up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-signlandscaping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}