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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A">Does anyone but me find it odd that NATIVE plants are so important to the welfare of EXOTIC honey bees? Or that exotic plants provide the overwhelming majority
of calories we all consum? Americans could survive quite nicely without Exotic European honey bees, but we would be hard pressed to survive without exotic foods.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>De Angelis, Patricia<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 29, 2013 11:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> native-plants<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PCA] Fwd: Bees need quality habitat to survive - making the case for native plants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Forwarding a message from a colleague.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife Service-International Affairs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Promoting sustainable use and conservation of our native medicinal plants. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><<a href="http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal" target="_blank">www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
This <span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">article is written by two Iowa State university researchers, published in <i>Iowa Farmer Today, "</i></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bees need quality habitat to survive".
It discusses results of research to find plants that attract pollinators, but not pest insects,
<b>in the midwest</b>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Midwest researchers have focused on native plants as a food source for bees and other beneficial insects. These plants
include flowering perennials commonly found in prairies."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Full story: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/news/regional/bees-need-quality-habitat-to-survive/article_b5df92ee-52cf-11e3-b66f-0019bb2963f4.html" target="_blank">http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/news/regional/bees-need-quality-habitat-to-survive/article_b5df92ee-52cf-11e3-b66f-0019bb2963f4.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The results of the work can be found at: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://nativeplants.msu.edu/" target="_blank">http://nativeplants.msu.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">See, for example, plant facts at: <a href="http://nativeplants.msu.edu/plant_facts" target="_blank">http://nativeplants.msu.edu/plant_facts</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">which from what I can tell focuses on attractiveness to bees (as opposed to all pollinators). Of course, the results
could be different for different parts of the country with different native faunas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">and discussion on native vs. non-native, which explains in simple terms why selecting natives is best, at: <a href="http://nativeplants.msu.edu/about/native_plants" target="_blank">http://nativeplants.msu.edu/about/native_plants</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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