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How to easily create a better garden for the bees; only mow your lawn every two weeks by valth

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How to easily create a better garden for the bees; only mow your lawn every two weeks
Bees (Clade *Anthophila*) are very important pollinators, but have recently seen a big decline in populations numbers in the recent decades due to bee-killing pesticides, climate change, and the changed use of agricultural lands where monoculture becomes more frequent. 

<center>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Apis_mellifera_flying.jpg</center>
*A honeybee. [Image by Muhammad Mahdi Karim, posted with the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apis_mellifera_flying.jpg)*.

I’m sure you have already heard a lot about [the threat the bees are currently facing](http://sos-bees.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BeesInDecline.pdf), so let’s rather take a look at how we can help save them. There are over 20,000 different species of bees, and most perform some sort of pollination service, and they are found on all parts in the world – except for Antarctica. 

Most people don't really like bees, but you really should. Without these hard workers, there's no way you would be able to each much fruit, or actually, each much plant-based stuff at all. Without bees to pollinate our crops, we would have huge issues with keeping up the modern agricultural output, and a total extinction of bees would likely lead to most humans dying from not getting enough food to eat. 

## Only mow your lawn every two weeks
Since the bees provide such an important ecosystem service to us by pollinating plants and trees, we obviously spend a lot of time to study their behavior in order to figure out how we can save them from further decline, and a [recently published paper has taken a look at how often it is optimal to mow your lawn](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320717306201).

<center>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Anthidium_February_2008-1.jpg</center>
*[Image by Alvesgaspar, posted with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anthidium_February_2008-1.jpg)*.

The basis of the experiment was to have homeowners in Springfield, Massachusetts in the United States mow their lawns at certain time intervals, and then the researchers would use insect nets and pan traps to count the amount of bees in the garden. The species and amount of flowering plants on the lawn were also counted and analyzed. 

The homeowners were divided into three groups; one that mowed the lawn every week, one that mowed it every two weeks, and one that mowed it every three weeks. 

The results are actually pretty interesting, and what they found out is that mowing your lawn every two weeks is the optimum for the bees! According to this study, this will allow your garden to support 30 % more bees than both the 1-week and the 3-week group. 

<center>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Lawn_16l07.JPG</center>
*A lawn where one part (on the right) had not been mown during the entire year. This is obviously a lot longer than 2 weeks, but you can easily guess which side that is preferred by bees and other insects. [Image by Snowmanradio, posted with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawn_16l07.JPG)*.

## The reason behind the results
So why is the two week mowing the optimum? The reason is most likely that if you cut it every week, there is simply not enough time for the flowers to bloom and produce nectar. At three weeks, the high grass seemingly made it difficult for the bees to reach the flowers. Two weeks on the other hand provided perfect conditions for the bees. 

As expected, the longer you wait between each mowing, the higher the species richness of the flowers will be, with very few plant species showing up in only one week. There is most likely a point where plant richness will decrease again, but this is after three weeks, and was not measured in this study. 

## More bees, but not a higher diversity
While the biweekly mowing is the most optimal for having more bees in your garden, it might not be the best approach to attract as many different species as possible. While it had 30 % more bees, it was generally dominated by a few species that did not specialize in any special flowers, but rather just used whatever flowers they could. Both the 1-week and the 3-week groups had a higher bee richness (different species) and evenness of the bee species.   

## Other ways to make your garden friendly towards bees
If you care about the bees, then there are of course other things you can do besides just reduce your frequency of mowing the grass. The most important thing is to have bee-friendly flowers. According to [this Wikihow post](https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Bee-Friendly-Garden), some good flowers include:
> asters, Black-eyed Susan, clover, columbines, coneflowers, Forget-Me-Not, geranium, goldenrod, heather, honeysuckle, ivy, Joe Pye weed, lupines, Michaelmas daisies, partridge peas, rhododendrons, sedum, sunflowers, tulips, white deadnettle, wild bergamot, wild lilacs, and willows.

In addition, a cool thing to add is a **insect hotel**, and you can buy or create your own that is tailored towards bees. 

The easiest way is to have some logs and drill lots of holes in them, or buy something like the thing you see on the image below and put it up close to your flowers. 

<center>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Insect_hotel%2C_Tittling.jpg</center>
*[Image by High Contrast, posted with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Insect_hotel,_Tittling.jpg)*.

## Thanks for reading
I hope you enjoyed this short post about what scientific research say you should do about the frequency of your lawn moving. I for one know that there’s no way I’m going to be mowing it every week this summer, and will gladly enjoy being able to do it less frequently while still having a clean conscious. Anyway, thank for your checking out my post, and have a good day! 

## <center>About @valth</center>
Hey, I'm @valth - the author of this post. I love to write about nature, biology, animals, nature conservation, ecology and other related branches of science, and I occasionally write about my life, about Steem or about random stuff as well. I'm trying my best to write at least one post every day, so make sure to give me a follow if you enjoy my content and want to see more of it. 

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@abdulmanan ·
Let me share you A story, Let me share you A story,
We had a shop in the village, We lived them for almost 10 years,
Near our house, there was a tree and on that tree, there was a house of bees, one of my friend hit that with a stone, and then? we all left that place and run because bees were following us.
We safe our selves but there was a person going, bees attacked him.
Luckily attacked wasn't sware, he got out too.
we never did that again.
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@alexaventuria ·
Great to see such articles on Steemit. I love biology and nature.

I think Humanity has too heavy an attachment to technology as a life facilitator. Instead of pondering on ideas as to how nature can recover from Humans' exploitation of Earth, most ideas are spent on how the natural life circle can be manipulated even more. Instead of proposing ideas as to how we can keep the natural flow intact, like you do with the lawnmowing, scientists instead opt for creating pollinating drones which aim at replacing bees or butterflies. All this is merely a product of indifference towards nature's decline and in turn amplify technology use to 'facilitate our lives'.
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@bala41288 ·
Ah! what a coincidence. I didn't notice that you wrote an article on bees. I also made a post on bees. Thanks to @sooflauschig for letting me know about your post. 

Bees are always wonderful. I'm a big fan of bees. If you see my profile, you will find many articles related to bees and pollination. I started writing more on bees after being saddened by the fact that population of bees is declining. In India beekeeping was very famous once. Every house had a decent garden near my locality and people were doing beekeeping. Now everything is converted to a flat system and if I try to bring bees to this environment, they will starve to death as we don't even have proper trees nearby. I'm trying to create lots of awareness among my friends on this topic. 

Humans will not be able to survive in this world without the help of bees. 

Thanks for this wonderful article.
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@dedicatedguy ·
Well I am not sure if I would like my garden full of bees haha

When little I was kind of scared of them
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@xabi ·
But we have got to change the attitude, jokes aside...Bees are most undervalued part of  our ecosystem...Like @ valth sais without enough bees to pollinate we could have a famine...
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@dedicatedguy ·
Yes, bees are important for the estability of our world, that’s why we need to take care of them.
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@folken · (edited)
Also, bees are pacifists, so don't bother them! :) 
This is not the case for wasp, they are pretty aggressive.
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@hafizhafi17 ·
Great for having too much informative post. 
We, the humans always give importance to what is important to us. Let me clear my stance. We are providing hives to bees to get honey while there are many other small insects for which no hives or shelter my humans. I am well aware that you are spreading awarness on the basis of your kindness towards bees but there must be some ideas for other small bees or insects like 
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3190/2721216961_386cf16ce1_b.jpg
[source](https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3190/2721216961_386cf16ce1_b.jpg)
etc. The below pic is showing the importance of bees in our lives and thus giving shelter 
http://www.eco-business.com/media/_versions/ebmedia/fileuploads/shutterstock_61182703_news_featured.jpg
[sourse](http://www.eco-business.com/media/_versions/ebmedia/fileuploads/shutterstock_61182703_news_featured.jpg)
Still thanks for much informative posts. it can be more profited if we extend it to other small living organisms
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@happysmileyman · (edited)
Bees are such an important part of our fragile eco system @valth heres the "bee hotel" in Glastonbury Somerset UK 
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@kamchore · (edited)
Again humans are so selfish. They love to add honey in their diet but at the same time killing honeybee by pesticides which eventually yield less fruit and food for humans. Major reason for this loss is due to ignorance of people. Majority of people donot know about pollination impact. It is time to launch awareness program to common who have no knowledge of usefulness of honeybee. Two weeks mowning is an excellent concept
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@lavidaesunviaje ·
I know the images are not yours but wow! those photos are amazing!
I'm in a rush so i haven't read your post, sorry... still supporting with my humble upvote!
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@mudasirfarooq ·
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By doing so we are not only curing diseases but curing nature also.Honey is an ingredient of many medicines, and is having a good market value, its a means of livlihood for many people too.
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@valth ·
Yeah, that's a good point! The only downside to this is that honeybee is only one of 20,000 species of bee, so we should take care of the wild bees in addition to the honeybee ;)
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@ralk98 ·
I have always wanted to have my own bees that produce natural honey and also help my garden to look better :) 
I would like to get some bees, but there are a lot of wasps in my garden and I think they will kill them.
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@sooflauschig ·
I was looking into programs that give away seeds you can plant in your garden to support bee populations. I know Cheerios is giving away free seeds [here](https://bringbackthebees.ca/Contest/Index), but I have found multiple pages claiming that those packages contain invasive species that should not be further spread ([example 1](https://lifehacker.com/don-t-plant-those-bee-friendly-wildflowers-cheerios-i-1793370883), [example 2](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cheerios-seeds-invasive-1.4038068)).

I found a canadian page [https://feedthebees.ca](https://feedthebees.ca) that also gives away free seed samples, which look better. 

Does anyone else know a good organization one could look at?
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@thegreatlife ·
Wow, that's really interesting. I never considered the length of my lawn determining the population of my bees. To think that this whole time, I've let my lawn go for up to a few months in a row in some cases. As I was reading, I would have thought that more grass would have been better, but this is because I wasn't considering the grass as being an obstacle. 

I've always liked bat houses and bird houses, but up until this day, I was completly unfamilar with bee hotels. This is really neat. I think that I might go online and purchase on to but on my property. I've got a lot of fruit trees, so the more help from the bees the better.

Great post @valth !
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@tulhachouhdry ·
Your posts are always fascinating and informative for me. You have some unique talent. And your snaps are awesome by the way. Bees are some times dangerous if get stung but they are beautiful . Beauty and inside the beast.
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@valth ·
Thank you :) I'm glad you like my content. 

> Bees are some times dangerous if get stung but they are beautiful 

Yes, that's a good point. Luckily most of us are not allergic to them, and while painful to get stung, it's not really dangerous :)
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@tulhachouhdry ·
Yeah but painful ☺
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@vinamra ·
Interesting one @valth
Well, these bees do play an important role in the ecosystem....and making your lawn a place for them is really good.
And according to Albert Einstein if honey bees disappeared from Earth humans will last only for approx 4 years.
http://www.mindblowing-facts.org/2013/02/according-to-albert-einstein-if-honey-bees-were-to-disappear-from-earth-humans-would-be-dead-within-4-years/
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@xabi ·
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I have also heard that the electromagnetic wave(the cellular networks) also adversely affect the bees, like interfering with their communication and rooming ability....
Is there any truth behind this???
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@valth ·
Yes, that is absolutely true, [and there are studies done about it](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052591/). I don't know too much about it, but apparently being exposed to a radiation from cell phones actually changed their biochemistry.
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