CONCERN ABOUT MOWNG OF OX-EYE DAISES 2022

 



To Whom It May Concern,


I used to love observing the site for the future Sacred Heart High school

 blossoming and blooming with a wild riot of naturalized and

 native flora. Not only was the site overwhelmed with ox-eye daisies, a

 feast for the eyes, but the blossoms brimming with nectar

 provided a vital food source for our precious pollinators.

After reading about the alarming decline of our pollinators here and

 around the works, I was especially delighted to note eye-daisies

 predominated this site.


Since bees are especially attracted to the colours yellow, and white ox-eye

 daisies are like a magnets for bees.

Many experts actually consider the ox-eye daisies here in North America as

 one of the most important plants for pollinators.

Not only do ox-eye daisies attract bees but they also attract moths and beetles.


Here in Canada we have over 850 native bee species and an increasing

 number of those are at the risk of extinction.

The job of pollinators is to pollinate over 450, 000 species of plants!

As a matter of fact pollinators, like bees and others are responsible for

 every third mouthful of food that we eat!


You can imagine my shock and profound disappointment when I recently

 observed that this abandoned site with its profusion of ox-

eye daisies had recently been mowed leaving behind a dead, empty waste

 land of dried- up stubble

I would appreciate an explanation as to why those in charge of this site

 would have readily destroyed a food source for pollinators

opon which we all depend for our future existence here on Earth?

Not only, did the act of mowing, recklessly eliminate this readily available

 naturalized food source for pollinators, but money on gas

 was wasted as well as spewing out toxic pollutants into our environment.




I and others who are concerned about the decline of our pollinators are

 looking forward to a response at your earliest opportunity.





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