Wild Bees - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? - Poster

Wild Bees "WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE"  Museum quality print on archival, acid-free matte paper. Two sizes: 24X36, 12X18 ABOUT WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?  is a plea to save our pollinator species before it is too late.  Between the wide spread use of pesticides and habitat loss, wild bee and many other pollinator populations are in extreme peril.  The introduction of pesticide and chemical resistant crops has paved the way for an enormous jump in the use of not just neonicotinoids, but dozens of other chemicals.  Dramatic declines in the populations of wild bees have been documented and coincide with the jump in the use of these agents.  Along side of this and perhaps an even more important factor in the crash of pollinator populations is the dramatic loss of habitat.  Pollinator habitat is disappearing at rates on par with that of the deforestation of the Amazonian rain forest. More than 36,000 square miles of wetlands and prairie in the American Midwest has been converte