Portfolio work: seven sources of renewable energy.
Portfolio work: I love watching the news. I made up this book cover from watching a news segment on the growing Renewable Energy Industry. Seven sources of renewable energy: Solar, wind, ocean: thermal & wave, hydrogen cell, geothermal, biomass, and hydroelectric.
Renewable Energy: One
It’s Not Corny! Biomass is one of seven sources of renewable energy.
Bee Book: All Together
Portfolio work: This is a public domain book written by D. B. Casteel.
Bee Book: Seven
When viewed from the side, it is clear why it is called honeyCOMB!
Check out this young bee activist, Scarlet Harper of Winnetka, Illinois.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/save-the-bees-campaign-scarlett-harper/
Last week, a hungry Hummingbird was trying to get the last of the nectar from my Bergamot/Bee Balm flowers. All my flowers are drying up early this year due to the drought. I installed a hummingbird feeder that lights up at night like an all-night nectar diner.
Echinacea from my garden. For some reason, my dog likes to munch on Echinacea. She’s a weirdo. LOL
Bee Book: Six
List of Pollinator Friendly Plants for your yard
Pick the right plants to attract native pollinators. By planting native plants in your area, you will attract native bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. (Source)
The honeybees are working hard to collect nectar from the Echinacea in my garden. The native plants in my yard are drought tolerant.
It’s been a rough summer in Minnesota for bees. Like most of the United States, we have also been experiencing a very long drought and at least a dozen forest fires in northern Minnesota.
Bee Book: Five
4000 native bee species in north America
1/4 species at risk of extinction
1/3 of your food is pollinated by bees.
Bees pollinate $15 billion worth of crops every year. (source)
Maps source: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?MN
Bee Book: Four
Portfolio work: bee anatomy and leg work.
Shake a leg! The honeybee takes a short break and uses its hind legs to clean itself on a Cutleaf Cone Flower in my garden.
Bee Book: Three
Busy as a bee. There are 20,000 species of bees and wasps. That’s a lot! But only eleven of those species produce and store honey.
Bees dance to show the others where to find nectar.
Bee Book: Two
Bee Book: One
Here is a new design for my portfolio. The book is from the public domain.