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Do you want to know how to recognize Bees in your garden and neighborhood? Do you want to plant flowers that will invite more bees to your garden? I’m super excited because for Earth Week, it’s April 27,2019. I have the Assistant Professor Pollinator Health Extension from the Department of Horticulture | Oregon State University, Dr. Andony Melathopoulos from the http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/ (Pollination Podcast!) http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/ () Oh there’s more then one bee?! When I do master gardener training is I help people identify 5 bees that are in North America. When you garden for bees it gets kind of complicated. If you can identify these 5 bees then you can go visit a neighbor’s garden and say oh! I see that bee on this plant. https://oregonstate.app.box.com/s/0q0bbxfofc7lrdr03rudepapp0lvlds8 (Identify 5 Bees |  10 tips to use in their garden tomorrow cheat sheet) Pollinator Habit Tell us a little about yourself. I’m in beautiful Oregon looking out the window in Oregon Horthornes are just starting to come into bloom Ceanothus the California Lilac Tell me about your first natural or gardening experience? How did you fall in love with horticulture? I was an urban kid, I remember I come from a Greek immigrant family. I remember my aunts and uncles having great tomatoes and going to Greece and the produce there that just  tastes wonderful. I remember starting to do it myself in my late 20s in the most northern part of Canada In the Peace River District where we would get a frost August first so we grew a lot of Kale! Where is that? Nova Scotia or the Yukon? It’s mile 0 of the Alaska Highway. It’s the most northern growing area in the US. the one things that lovely when it hits solstice. sun dips down around three and then just pops up again You get this really long exceedingly quick and rapid growing season It’s amazing! The downside is you’re always dodging the frost One year I had the audacity to grow tomatoes and the ones that grew they were the size of a marble I was like  I’m learning!  What could you grow? Could you grow potatoes? potatoes frost pocket I was working at the aG Canada research stations It started because it was so far from anywhere the idea was to make people self sufficient prairies Northern climate fruit trees hapscas apple orchard You have to adapt your gardening for it, it’s tricky, but there are ways to get around things. People were always pushing your envelope For me as a beginning gardener I struck to the fundamentals great garlic tomatoes cherry tomatoes maybe but doing real tomatoes was beyond my pay grade at the time. Me too, I stick to cherry tomatoes in Montana. Tell us about the bees This is how I start it off the first thing we are confronted with these plant lists. You can go anywhere on the internet and type pollinators and plants and they spit out these lists problem with the lists they’re ok There’s lots of good plants on them But there are a lot of bees! there are not just honey bees yellow jackets I get calls all the time yellow jackets hornets different groups bees and wasps are closely related thing with bees You can always tell a bee if it’s carrying pollen on it’s body not all bees do BUT IF YOU SEE a lump of pollen on an insect flying through the air it’s a bee! Their protein comes from pollen! They’re vegetarians! BEES! No other insect that relies on pollen and nectar and for it’s life! radical turn towards the flowers ok yellow jackets and hornets are not bees What’s a bee? honeybees bumble bees  mason bees (you had a great episode on mason bees!) There are 800 bees https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/127741-Colletes (Colletes Cellophane bees) If you go on your goldenrod little specs with a white dot on their face...