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Sources Cited: Victory Gardens FOR Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees

Chapter 1: Bee Afraid

(Pg. 1) Walsh, Bryan. “Going Green: Beepocalypse Now?” Time. September 13, 2007. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1661683,00.html

Winston, Mark L. “Toxic Soup.” The Hive. February 8, 2014. http://winstonhive.com/?p=191

Pearson, Gwen. “You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees.” Wired. April 29, 2015. http://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/

(Pg. 3) Goulson, Dave. “There Is No Plan Bee for When We Run Out of Pollinators.” Financial Times. November 8, 2013. https://www.ft.com/content/a7ffe730-47a0-11e3-9398-00144feabdc0

(Pg. 4) “Bee Wise” is a term first suggested to me by another artist who runs with the bees, Brenna Maag.

Chapter 2: Victory Gardens for Bees

(Pg. 7) Before digging into any new areas on your property or a public boulevard, check that it is safe to do so by applying for any civic or county permissions required. Refer to your property records for buried wires, and irrigation or drainage infrastructure.

(Pg. 8) “Bio-plan” is a term coined by botanist and biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger to describe a balanced garden that a person uses to improve their quality of life and mend the health of the planet. https://dianaberesford-kroeger.com/

(Pg. 10) Case, Elizabeth. “Insecticide Temporarily Banned by Oregon Department of Agriculture after 50,000 Bumblebees Die in Wilsonville.” Oregon Live. June 27, 2013. https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2013/06/state_agency_temporarily_bans.html

Elle, Elizabeth. Lecture, “Bees in the City.” Vancouver Park Board. July 4, 2014.

Thomson, Janet, and Manmeet Ahluwalia. “What’s Killing Canadian Honeybees?” CBC News. July 9, 2013. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/what-s-killing-canadian-honeybees-1.1312511

Leahy, Stephen. “Neonicotinoids: The New DDT.” Watershed Sentinel. August 28, 2014. http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/neonicotinoids-new-ddt

(Pg. 12) Elle. “Bees in the City.”

(Pg. 13) “Neonicotinoid Pesticides Are a Huge Risk—So Ban Is Welcome, Says EEA.” European Environment Agency. May 2, 2013. http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/neonicotinoid-pesticides-are-a-huge

Atkins, Eric. “Ontario First in North America to Restrict Pesticides Blamed for Bee Decline.” Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ontario-unveils-first-restrictions-on-class-of-pesticides/article24874268/

Theen, Andrew. “Portland Bans Use of Insecticides Believed to Be Harmful to Bees on City Property.” The Oregonian. June 18, 2013. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/04/portland_bans_use_of_specific.html

Hightower, Steven. “Insectaries and IPM at Benziger Winery.” UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County.

(Pg. 14) Keim, Brandon. “Beyond Black and Yellow: The Stunning Colors of America’s Native Bees.” WIRED. August 12, 2013. http://www.wired.com/2013/08/beautiful-bees/?pid=7213

(Pg. 20) Grissell, Eric. Bees, Wasps, and Ants: The Indispensable Role of Hymenoptera in Gardens.Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2010. 88–89.

Keim. “Beyond Black and Yellow.”

Chapter 3: Bees of All Stripes

(Pg. 33) The Great Sunflower Project is an example of a citizen science project you can join by growing sunflowers and counting bees. https://www.greatsunflower.org/

(Pg. 39) Xerces Society. “At-Risk Bumble Bees.” https://xerces.org/endangered-species/species-profiles/at-risk-bumble-bees

Xerces Society. “Western Bumble Bee.” https://xerces.org/endangered-species/species-profiles/at-risk-bumble-bees/western-bumble-bee

(Pg. 41) 25 COSEWIC. “COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Western Bumble Bee Bombus occidentalis.” 2014. https://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/cosewic/sr_Western%20Bumble%20Bee_2014_e.pdf

(Pg. 41) COSEWIC. “Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus affinus): COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report 2022.” https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry/cosewic-assessments-status-reports/rusty-patched-bumble-bee-2022.html

(Pg. 42) Gamage, Michelle. “Our Once Most Common Bee Needs Saving. Here’s What We Can Do.” The Tyee. March 10, 2023. https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/10/Climate-Change-Decimating-Bumble-Bee/

(Pg. 67) Brister, Wendy. “A Native Plant Success Story: Finding Rare Bees in Your Backyard.” Cavano’s Perennials. July 2, 2020. https://cavanos.com/blog/a-native-plant-success-story-finding-rare-bees-in-your-backyard/

US Geological Survey Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. “Colletes aestivalis.” December 17, 2019. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/colletes-aestivalis-f-back-rockingham-co-va

Fogel, Nina S., Christine Kirmaier and Mike Arduser. “First known records of the specialist bee, Colletes aestivalis (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), in an urban area.” Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 56 (2), 2023. https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol56/iss2/13

Chapter 4: Healthy Herbs for Pollinators and People

Chapter 5: Beelicious Edible Gardens

(Pg. 88) Tracey, David. “Replanting the City Farming Movement in BC.” The Tyee. August 20, 2009. http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/08/20/ReplantingFarming/

Victory Gardens 2007. http://www.futurefarmers.com/victorygardens/history.html

(Pg. 90) 33 Smith, K. Annabelle. “A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark.” Smithsonian.com. August 13, 2013.

34 Pearson, Gwen. “You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees.” Wired. April 29, 2015.http://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/

(Pg. 95) Davies, Caroline. “Queen Turns Corner of Palace Backyard into an Allotment.” Guardian. June 14, 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jun/14/queen-allotment-organic-gardening

Chapter 6: Wild for Native Bees

(Pg. 106) “Calgary Eyeopener: Urban Bees.” CBC. June 9, 2014.

Shepherd, Matthew. “Nests for Native Bees.” The Xerces Society. https://www.xerces.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/12-015_02_XercesSoc_Nests-for-Native-Bees-fact-sheet_web.pdf

(Pg. 115) He was not interned, but had to give up his goose-hunting rifle. The local Mountie advised him to bury it in the backyard and dig it up when the war was over.

(Pg. 116) Helzer, Chris. “Bee Goggles.” The Prairie Ecologist. October 1, 2013. http://prairieecologist.com/2013/10/01/bee-goggles/

(Pg. 118 ) Lohmiller, George and Becky. “Not-so-Common-Milkweed.” The Old Farmer’s Almanac. http://www.almanac.com/content/not-so-common-milkweed

Chapter 7 The New Buzz on Beekeeping

(Pg. 144) 43 Cane, James H. and Vincent J. Tepedino. “Gauging the Effect of Honey Bee Pollen Collection on Native Bee Communities.” Conservation Letters, vol 10 (2), 205–10. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12263

Each province and state has its own beekeeping acts and regulations. All beekeepers, no matter what their methods, must adhere to these rules.

What we call “micronutrients” are really macronutrients from a bee’s perspective.

Pearson, Gwen. “Royal Jelly Isn’t What Makes a Queen Bee a Queen Bee.” Wired. September 2, 2015.

(Pg. 146) McNeil, M.E.A. “Marla Spivak: Getting Bees Back on Their Own Six Feet.” American BeeJournal vol 150 (9), 2010: 856–60.

Horn, Tammy. Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 202.

50 Mader, Eric Lee, Anne Stine, Jarrod Fowler, Jennifer Hopwood, and Mace Vaughan, with contributions from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. “Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects.” Pollinator Partnership. https://www.pollinatorpartnership.ca/assets/generalFiles/COVERCROP_POLLINATOR.pdf

(Pg. 149) Winston, Mark L. Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 85–86.

Zink, Lindsay. “Concurrent effects of landscape context and managed pollinators on wild bee communities and canola (Brassica napus L.) pollen deposition.” Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, January 2013.

Pellett, Frank. “Anise Hyssop: Wonder Honey Plant.” American Bee Journal, 1940.

(Pg. 150) Quinby, M. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained. Containing the Result of Thirty-five Years’ Experience, and Directions for Using the Movable Comb and Box-hive, Together with the Most Approved Methods of Propagating the Italian Bee. New York: O. Judd, 1867. 80.

(Pg. 150) Pellett, Frank C. American Honey Plants. Hamilton, IL: American Bee Journal, 1920. 7.

(Pg. 151) Davidson, John. Lecture “Honey Plants for Bees.” February 1, 1920.

(Pg. 152) Heinrich, Bernd. Bumblebee Economics. Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 1979. 101.

Fitch, Gordon. “The Fitch Lab.” York University. https://www.fitchecology.com/

(Pg. 153) Turnbull, W.H. One Hundred Years of Beekeeping in British Columbia, 1858–1958. Vernon, BC: B.C. Honey Producers’ Association, 1958. 20.

Fowler, Jarrod. “Beetle Banks.” https://jarrodfowler.com/Beetle_Banks-Jarrod_Fowler.pdf

Fowler, Jarrod. “Bumble Bee Flower Finder.” https://bumblebeeflowerfinder.info/find.html

Wild Bee Florals. https://www.wildbeeflorals.com/

Chapter 8: Bee Hedgerows

(Pg. 166) Sadly, during World War II, British farmers ripped out acres of hedgerows to grow food for the war effort.

(Pg 172) Dogterom, Marguerite. “Want Bigger Blueberries? Make Your Bees Work Harder.” Simon Fraser University Media & Public Relations. August 14, 1996.

(Pg. 169) Becher, M.A., G. Twiston-Davies, J.L. Osborne, and T.A. Lander. “Resource gaps pose the greatest threat for bumblebees during the colony establishment phase.” Insect Conservation and Diversity vol 17 (4), 2024: 676–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12736

(Pg. 173) “Honey Bees Need Trees.” Barcham: The Tree Specialists. http://www.barchampro.co.uk

Beresford-Kroeger, Diana. Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest. University of Michigan, 2003. 119.

Chapter 9: Victory Borders for Bees

(Pg. 193) Carlton, Marc. “Re-defining ‘Native’ Plants.” In The Pollinator Garden: About Plants, Pollinating Insects, and Gardening. http://www.foxleas.com/re-defining-native-plants.asp

Chapter 10: Growing to Love Bees

(Pg. 220, Vandana Shiva) Siegel, Taggart, and Jon Betz. Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? West Hoathly, UK: Clairview Books, 2011.

Mosby, Ian. “Food on the Home Front during the Second World War.” Wartime Canada. http://wartimecanada.ca/essay/eating/food-home-front-during-second-world-war

(Pg. 224) The University of Calgary was the tenth university in Canada to become a certified bee campus.

McLernon, D. “Beehabilitation on Spaceship Earth.” (Master’s thesis, University of Calgary, 2018). https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/items/838b1e25-20cd-4b24-8a0f-8c697fd4d22a

(Pg. 226) “Introducing LawnShare.” David Suzuki Foundation. https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/lawnshare/

Tallamy, Doug. Homegrown National Park. https://homegrownnationalpark.org/

(Pg. 227) “Butterflies in My Backyard (BIMBY) Project.” iNaturalist. https://inaturalist.ca/projects/butterflies-in-my-backyard-bimby-project

(Pg. 228) “Master Melittologist Program.” Oregon State University Extension Service. https://extension.oregonstate.edu/master-melittologist

“Oregon Bee Atlas.” Oregon State University Extension Service. https://extension.oregonstate.edu/bee-atlas

“Washington Native Bee Society.” iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/washington-native-bee-society