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		<title>Pleeze Count Your Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spending 15 minutes in your garden counting bees is a pleasant way to pass the time while helping with bee conservation efforts.
I&#8217;ve been counting the bees that land on the &#8216;Lemon Queen&#8217; sunflowers in my garden and I&#8217;m delighted at the results.
During my latest 15-minute observation, I counted 12 honeybees landing on one large flower&#8211;almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sphinx Hummingbird Moth Dazzles at Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other evening I caught a glimpse of a sphinx moth darting from petunia to petunia in the patio garden.
John grabbed his camera and captured this wonderful shot of a white-lined sphinx moth enjoying some of the Wave petunias Ball Horticultural Company sent me earlier this season to trial in my garden.

I like the Wave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Need to Be at Today&#8217;s Bee-a-thon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bee part of the first-ever online town hall event dedicated to celebrating the  most underappreciated helpers in our gardens: bees.
The 2011 Bee-a-thon, hosted by Your Garden Show, is the kick-off to today&#8217;s Great Bee Count.
Stop by the Bee-a-thon between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Pacific time for the first-ever online webcast discussing how to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Fountain Butterfly Bush Doing its Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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The Silver Fountain Butterfly Bush is now loaded with purple blooms and I&#8217;m not the only one to notice.
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		<title>Lemon Queen Sunflower Gardening for Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to plant your sunflower seeds and join the Great Sunflower Project for 2011.
The Great Sunflower Project is underway! Plant Lemon Queen Sunflowers this weekend and then mark your calendar for July 16. That&#8217;s the day of the Great Bee Count of 2011.
The Great Sunflower Project is my favorite citizen science effort. Every summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wicked Gardening Fun with Amy Stewart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Stewart&#8217;s talk at the Denver Botanic Gardens tomorrow night promises to be wicked good fun.
I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing Amy again tomorrow night at the DBG when she gives her talk called &#8220;Wicked Plants: The Deliciously Dark Side of the Plant World.&#8221;
I met Amy at a Garden Writers Association Symposium a couple of years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hornet&#8217;s Nest Adds Gardening Interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bald-faced hornet (D. maculata) belongs to the wasp family and is known for its elaborate hanging paper nests.
We noticed the beginnings of a bald-faced hornet&#8217;s nest on the ceiling of the front porch in mid-June.
I wasn&#8217;t sure what it was when I first saw it, but then I noticed the insect activity.
John grabbed his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Pollinator Week Salute to Butterflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are about 250 species of butterflies in Colorado, but I see more Two-Tailed Swallowtails than any other kind.
As part of National Pollinator Week, I&#8217;d like to take time today to salute butterflies.
This has been a good year for spotting butterflies in my yard, especially the beautiful Two-Tailed Swallowtails.
The ones that I&#8217;ve seen sailing through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Pollinator Week Salute to Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 21-27, with a WesternGardeners.com salute to pollinators. Today we proudly salute bees!
Thanks to the efforts of the Pollinator Partnership, pollinators are being celebrated across the country this week. As part of its mission, the Pollinator Partnership works to protect pollinators&#8211;like bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles&#8211;through conservation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunflower Gardening Helps Bees in Several Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Sunflower Project needs gardeners to plant sunflower seeds and to spend a few minutes of time observing bee activity in their gardens.
It&#8217;s time to join hands with other gardeners involved in The Great Sunflower Project and plant Lemon Queen sunflower seeds in your garden.
This simple act will help honeybees in two ways: it [...]]]></description>
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