Storytelling with Wild Native Bees
Caption: Kalm’s St. John’s Wort (Hypericum kalmianum)
Picture Credit: Ian Shanahan
By Green Teacher staff
Overarching inquiry question: How do wild native bees impact what food we eat?
Materials:
Paper
Colored drawing utensils
Background:
*Refer to the chart in this article (Pages 8 and 9 of the Summer 2022 issue), which shows which social bees (honey bees and bumble bees) and solitary bees pollinate different crop plants as well as which crops require bee pollination. The genera of solitary bees (Latin names) are listed in the chart; here is a key to the English names of each genus referenced in this activity:
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