Homestead Apiaries Inc.

Everyone and everything needs a refuge and you can help.

• Roadsides, ditches, and buffer strips can also serve as wild pollinator habitat.
• Over twice as many total number of wild bees and almost 80 percent more bee species were found along highways when ditches were left natural.
• During the past two decades the DNR Roadsides for Wildlife program has promoted the establishment and protection of natural vegetation along roads. Even the narrowest strip of wild flowers will help bees, especially if you have native wildflowers blooming throughout the  growing season.
• In just the southern two-thirds of Minnesota there are 525,000 roadside acres, that if left natural would be a vast improvement in habitat.

Bee's and other natural pollinators need habitat to forage, habitat free of chemicals.

Pesticides can be particularly dangerous to bees as they forage in sprayed areas, collecting and storing chemical-saturated pollen.

Please consider small changes that would make a huge difference.