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Come on now, bees sting! Who wants to have bees in their yard on purpose? Anyone with a garden will want to have these little critters around. They are terrific for pollinating your flowers and vegetables.
Without bees, you depend on the wind and other insects to carry pollen from plant to plant. Pollen is what makes the plants produce gorgeous buds and more blooms or creates those luscious vegetables we like to eat. For example, tomato plants and berries are flowers. From the flowers you get the good stuff to eat. Without bees, this would not work so well.

Bees need pollen. You will naturally attract bees with anything that blooms. Because pollen is so important, you will have to skip weeding. Bees need the clovers and other weeds for their pollen. After the flowers wilt from the weeds and they haven't started making seeds, then you can weed away! If you leave some weeds for your bee friends more will hang out in your yard.

Only the female bees will sting you. Most of them have bright yellow on them. The majority of bees will protect their nests. So be careful and find out where the friends are living in your yard. Most "urban" bees will nest in the ground. So watch your step!

Don't swat at bees. Don't get too close to their nest. If you do those two things most of the time they are going to leave you alone. You want bees in your garden to make great vegetables and huge blooms on flowers.

Resources for this article:
http://nature.berkeley .edu/urbanbeegardens/general_s easons.html

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