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Jane Shasky paints beautifully detailed watercolors celebrating plant, insect, and bird life. Save the Bees features bee–friendly flowers and herbs as well as fascinating bee facts.

Another image by Jane Shasky can be found on page 49.

Chives flower early, cheerfully producing nectar for spring bees set to fly.

Bee health is a direct sign of the ecosystem's health. A third of the world’s food depends on bee pollination.

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams." _ Henry David Thoreau

"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden." _ Elizabeth Lawrence Planting a garden or pots of bee-friendly flowers is one of the easiest and most beautiful ways to help.

Scabiosa blossoms offer a feast of nectar for bees.

Snowdrops are low maintenance bulbs offering fresh nectar for early-bird bees.

For shady areas, the winter-spring Hellebore is a rich source of nectar and pollen. Hellebore Zinnias

Cornflowers (bachelor’s buttons) are popular with bees due to their high levels of nectar. Gaillardia

Gaillardias are not scented, but do not fade and have a long blooming season that provides food, rest, and shelter.

"How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every opening flower!" _ Isaac Watts

An exhausted bee can be revived with a mixture of water and sugar placed nearby. Peonies

Bees navigate using a solar compass, and polarized light.

A worker bee will make 1/10 a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

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Parrot tulips adjust their blossoming to less competitive pollination times.

Zinnias are abundant and colorful late-season bloomers that help prepare bees for the winter.

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Herbs, easy to grow in pots, make a wonderful garden addition for bees, as well as for cooking! Bees are the most common pollinator of roses . Lavender has a strong scent and color that are alluring to bees.

Bees cannot see red, but love purple, blue, yellow, white, and ultraviolet. It takes 2 million tapped flowers to make 1 pound of honey. Forget-me-not

Forget-me-nots direct a bee’s journey by the fading of their yellow centers once pollinated.

Poppies do not produce nectar, but are an abundant source of easily accessible pollen.

Peonies with single petal rows provide better bee access.

The sunflower’s head is comprised of multiple smaller flowers, providing a playground of nourishment for bees. The primrose resonates with a bee’s buzz and reacts by increasing its sugar output.

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The lilac’s dense clusters invite bees to collect more nectar with less flying. Foxglove, quintessential to a country bee garden, is toxic to pets.

Bees love sunshine!

Honeybees will perform a waggle dance to share the location of a successful forage.

Bees love the fragrance of bee balm, from the mint family.

A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during one collection trip.