Enchanted Stationery Subscription Box: Spring 2021
We hope you're loving your box of springtime artwork!
This season we're featuring four endangered birds and bees, and the flora they love:
Black Inca Hummingbird and Yellow Maple
Bee Hummingbird and Clerodendrum aculeatum
Gulf Coast Evening Bee and Coastalplain Honeycombhead
Rusty-Patched Bumblebee and Dutchman's Trousers
…as well as terrific springtime success stories like that of the previously-thought-endangered Great White Cherry,
…and many classic springtime plants, such as
jewelweed
daffodil
crocus
snowdrop
dandelions
calendula
western mugwort
tree tobacco
and sea holly
LEARN MORE
✦ "Cherry" Ingraham: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms
✦ The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Needs Another Legal Win
✦ Floral Traits of Plants Visited by the Bee Hummingbird
ON BEES
Why didn't we feature honeybees, though?
Well, as it happens, in focusing so much on honeybees, it pulls focus and resources from the solitary bees which truly need our help. For more information, here are some websites you can check out.
✦ The Problem With Honey Bees
✦ You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees
✦ Exploitative competition alters bee foraging and flower choice
✦ Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks
✦ Thousands of Wild Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990
✦ Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
✦ Center for Biological Diversity: Native Bees
This season we're featuring four endangered birds and bees, and the flora they love:
Black Inca Hummingbird and Yellow Maple
Bee Hummingbird and Clerodendrum aculeatum
Gulf Coast Evening Bee and Coastalplain Honeycombhead
Rusty-Patched Bumblebee and Dutchman's Trousers
…as well as terrific springtime success stories like that of the previously-thought-endangered Great White Cherry,
…and many classic springtime plants, such as
jewelweed
daffodil
crocus
snowdrop
dandelions
calendula
western mugwort
tree tobacco
and sea holly
LEARN MORE
✦ "Cherry" Ingraham: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms
✦ The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Needs Another Legal Win
✦ Floral Traits of Plants Visited by the Bee Hummingbird
ON BEES
Why didn't we feature honeybees, though?
Well, as it happens, in focusing so much on honeybees, it pulls focus and resources from the solitary bees which truly need our help. For more information, here are some websites you can check out.
✦ The Problem With Honey Bees
✦ You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees
✦ Exploitative competition alters bee foraging and flower choice
✦ Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks
✦ Thousands of Wild Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990
✦ Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
✦ Center for Biological Diversity: Native Bees