An Urgent Message: Lawn Pesticides Kill Bees!

This is an issue that makes me so emotional, I can hardly restrain myself to write coherently about it, which is why I am going to refer you to an article on the subject on the Xerces Foundation website.
Please read this article and avoid the pesticides on the list AT ALL COSTS. These pesticides accumulate in plants for up to six years and also build up in the soil. When people use them on lawns to kill European chafer beetle larvae they kill non-stinging ground nesting bees. Please spread the word. Make signs. Raise hell! Send your protest photos to me: beespeaker(at)gmail(dot)com.

Please read this article: Are Neonicatinoids Killing Bees?

Chafer Beetle Shadenfreude

As the European chafer beetles and their predators ravage lawns in East Vancouver, I am silently cheering them on. Skunks, raccoons flickers and crows are the Vancouver foodies who love the new culinary trend in raw exotic larvae. The scruffier the lawn, the more it appeals to little ground nesting bees. On a sunny day you can look at lawns like this and see masses of them digging holes and laying eggs, with cuckoo bees lurking and nipping in to lay their eggs and then shirking their maternal duties. Carnivorous wasps are foodies too, hovering above the living buffet to snatch their favorite delicacies.