A new pilot project from the Utah Department of Transportation and Utah State University is protecting bumblebees. The idea is to give pollinators more habitat while teaching us how we can do our part to help bees at home.
At the northbound I-15 rest stop in Perry, in Box Elder County, you will find a pollinator garden that spans about 1 acre.
"Pollinators are in decline. It's been well-established in literature, in the studies," Becky Yeager said."You know most of the food that we eat relies on pollinators," she said. "Without pollinators, we would not have food on our table. Our animals would not have food." Yeager said, "They're losing habitat, nectaring sources; pesticide use is a big impact to pollinators. There's a number of factors, climate change."
"We have over 900 species of native bees in our state, which is pretty phenomenal. We should be pretty proud of that," Yeager said.
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