Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InsectSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InsectSaturday</span></a> </p><p>Sure, European Honeybees are effective agricultural pollinators in the U.S., but what about our native bees?</p><p>🐝 Check out this shiny green beauty! It's a Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a generalist pollinator. It pollinates many trees, shrubs and flowers.</p><p>🌻 Solitary, it takes pollen to its young in burrows underground or in rotting logs. I keep a population safe in my <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a> by not using pesticides and leaving large areas in a more natural state.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NativeBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeBees</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insect</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HabitatGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HabitatGardening</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BiodiversityGradening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityGradening</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bees</span></a></p>