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Gardening for Native Bees in Utah and Beyond
PDF Version The following is an excerpt from a fact sheet released by The Utah State University Extension and Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory Do You Know? 900 species of native bees reside in Utah. Some wild bees are superb pollinators of Utah’s tree fruits, raspberries, squashes, melons and cucumbers. Few of our native bees have much venom or any inclination to sting. Our native bees use hundreds of varieties of garden flowers, many of them water-wise. A garden plant need not be native to attract and feed native bees. Utah is home to more than 20 percent of the...