Hope for the bees

Rob Moir
3 min readMay 20, 2021

There is hope for the bees when there’s clover in the lawn. Researchers discovered that lawns in Springfield Massachusetts when cut every three weeks instead of weekly resulted in as many as 2.5 times more lawn flowers, mostly clover and dandelions, and a great diversity of 93 species of bees.

Thursday, May 20 this the sixth annual World Bee Day. Celebrate bees by joining with others in pledging not to spread quick-release…

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Rob Moir

Rob Moir is writing environmental nonfiction and writes for the Ocean River Institute and the Global Warming Solutions IE-PAC newsletter.