5 Flowering Plants for Bees
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The Washington Post had a great package last week coinciding with the White House's announcement of initiatives intended to support declining bee populations in America.
Obama instructed all federal agencies to use their powers "to broadly advance honey bee and other pollinator health and habitat," and the Agriculture Department announced $8 million in incentives to farmers and ranchers in five states who establish new habitats for honeybees.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday "there is a clear economic incentive for us" to protect pollinators because the crops they pollinate "have an impact of about $24 billion a year on the United States economy."
"And we’re going to continue to work in collaborative fashion with industry, with state and local leaders, with private landowners to address this problem," Earnest said,
In fact, one-third of our food supply--the fruits, vegetables and nuts we eat--are pollinated by bees. But the current U.S. honeybee population is now less than half of what it was in 1945.
I was attracted to a small piece of the WaPo's larger infographic that identified some common plants that bees love, so I expanded on that in my own infographic. To make it, I used a free template created by HubSpot.
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