tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49528372238618832682024-02-07T11:49:27.649-08:00The RMS Bee GroupOur mission is to educate and inspire generations of bee-lovers through grassroots activism. We are a school-based club at Roosevelt International Baccalaureate Middle School. Save the bees!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546831524584393656noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952837223861883268.post-21441063106512467472014-05-18T12:49:00.001-07:002014-05-18T14:19:31.745-07:00News!<div style="text-align: center;">
Summary by Zachary Zollman</div>
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The Roosevelt Bee Group is happy to announce that we are currently working with Walt on our owl box that will bee hung up in Florida Canyon. We also started work on an exciting new musical project. Look forward to hearing about that soon! We are also amazed that, coincidentally, Edible San Diego, Slow Food Urban San San Diego, and Sempra Energy sponsored a magazine for kids about bees that was passed out to all students at RMS. We would like to thank them for what they do. We are looking forward to our final Florida Canyon Adventure this Thursday and our first ever Native Plant Sale this Wednesday. Hope to see you there!<br />
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<strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The Roosevelt Middle School Bee Group is proud to announce a new monthly art contest!!! This contest is open to everyone who is between ten and eighteen years old. <b>All submissions must relate to bees. </b></span>Inappropriate<span style="font-family: inherit;"> submissions will be disqualified. </span><b>Plagiarism<span style="font-family: inherit;"> is </span>illegal</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>.</b> The submissions can be in any form (photographs, sculptures, paintings, drawings, digital art, etc,). Submissions can bee sent in at any time; we will announce the May winner in about one month. Please include your name, art medium, a photo/file of your art, and your current age. The winning submissions will be posted, and may be used elsewhere on the website.</span></strike></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sadly, due to the </span>brief<span style="font-family: inherit;"> amount of time remaining in the school year, we will postpone the art contest until the 2014-2015 school year. Feel free to make bee art over the summer, though. Thank you!</span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a photo of a bumble bee about to land on a clover in Central Pennsylvania. ©Zachary Zollman 2013</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546831524584393656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952837223861883268.post-10548636321519142382014-03-20T16:00:00.000-07:002014-05-18T14:18:36.425-07:00Florida Canyon Adventure 3/20/14<div style="text-align: center;">
Summary by Molly Demer</div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">The RMS Garden Club joined the RMS Bee Group in our second to last 2014 Florida Canyon Adventure. 18 people (5 advisors and 13 students) walked over to our bee garden, which was previously cleared for planting. We then we sorted our seventy native plants by species and learned how much space each type of plant needed. We planted:</span></div>
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Today was the annual Roosevelt Middle School I.B. (International Baccalaureate) Fest! Bee Group had a table, and we collected donations, gave away California Poppy Seeds, showed people one of our videos about Florida Canyon, and talked to them about bees. It was really great to get to inform people about the plight of the bees. We gave away about fifteen CA Poppy seed packets with informational cards about the Bee Group. These CA poppies will benefit all sorts of native pollinators, including bees. Overall, this was a really great event!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At our table, we had a computer with a video from a Florida Canyon Adventure, a box filled with CA Poppies, a donation box, field trip forms for our Florida Canyon Adventures, and a tri fold. </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546831524584393656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952837223861883268.post-25723588472265559052014-02-20T20:42:00.000-08:002014-03-16T20:43:29.027-07:00Florida Canyon Adventure 2-20-14<div class="MsoNormal">
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On the 20<sup>th</sup> of February, The Bee Group and Garden
Club made another successful journey to Florida canyon. Our group consisted of
18 students and 4 advisors. We first learned about bones from an archeologist
from UCSD. We looked at bones that we found on a previous adventure. The archeologist taught
us that all mammal bones are similar, and that bones finish growing their ends
at adulthood. We studied the bones, hypothesizing that the bones were from
cattle. We reached this conclusion because the bone seemed to have been cut by
a man made tool, which suggested that it was going to be eaten. These practices
were common about a hundred years ago, so this bone was probably a hundred
years old. After this great experience, we continued on to community service.
We trimmed down eucalyptus trees that were engulfing native plants like
California Buckwheat. After trimming many invasive plants, we moved farther
down into the canyon and focused on cutting down St. John’s Wort, an invasive
plant that is not native to San Diego. This was a really fun, successful event!
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are some of the seed bombs that we used to spread native plants in Florida Canyon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one end of our restoration site in Florida Canyon. Soon it will bee a pollinator garden!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see, Florida Canyon is directly across the street from Roosevelt Middle School (the building in the background). The kiosk will be repainted and the interior redesigned by the RMS Bee Group.</td></tr>
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on January 20</span><sup style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">. The flower seeds that we put in the seed bombs
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Wart Stem Ceanothus (Ceanothus verrucosus), Deerweed (Lotus scoparius), and Broom Baccharis (Bacharris sarothroides). All of these are native
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0.5in;">5 parts dry clay, preferably powder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0.5in;">3 parts fine compost</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0.5in;">1 part seeds, preferably of native plants</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0.5in;">Just enough water to hold it together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">First, you put
the clay on your work surface. Next, you add the compost, and then the seeds.
It’s great to spread native plants, so bee sure to use seeds of native plants
whenever possible! </span><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Always be sure that
you are not putting seeds from invasive plants in your seed bombs. </b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">You can
face fines for spreading invasive plants, especially on public lands. Next, you
add a </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">tiny tiny tiny</span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> amount of water. If this is not enough, add a </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">tiny tiny
tiny</span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> bit more. Repeat previous step until your seed bombs form a sort of dough.
It is important to not let your seed bombs fall apart, but if you add too much
water, your seeds could sprout prematurely or rot. Let the seed bombs dry for a
few days, and then find an empty space and throw your seed bombs! Save the
bees!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546831524584393656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952837223861883268.post-42189876580991010712013-11-21T19:32:00.000-08:002014-04-07T20:05:50.141-07:00The First Florida Canyon Adventure<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">
Summary By Zachary Zollman</div>
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On November 21st, 2013, we walked across the street to
Florida Canyon for the very first time. Green trees decorated the hillside as
three members of bee group picked up trash. We were accompanied by Ms. Sarah
Hiveley, our amazing advisor, and Ranger Carina Weber, who would be helping us
for the next few months, and hopefully, years. We received a brief history of
Florida Canyon, and found out that Florida Canyon is home to an endangered
cactus. We found a suitcase, museum passes, and all sorts of other trash. We
are looking forward to continuing our restoration events!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Summary by Lillian Shallow</div>
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The Roosevelt Bee Group recently accompanied Ms. Sarah Barnard on a trip to the world renowned San Diego Zoo. It was a wonderful and very educational trip. Unfortunately, the zoo's observational bee colony has mysteriously died, and we suspect that it has suffered a terrible case of CCD (colony collapse disorder), so there weren't any bees on exhibit. However, we did have the opportunity to observe some wild bee hives that the San Diego Zoo has allowed to inhabit their property. We were only able to find two; one in "The Lost Forest", and the other near the primate exhibits on the "Monkey Trail." We do know that there are others, but we do not know how many because the zoo does not do any type of research on these bees, but graciously allows them to live at the zoo.<br />
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As for the currently empty observational hive, the Bee Group brainstormed ideas and theories about why the colony died, and how to improve the hive. We also learned many fun facts about bees, such as the fact that the zoo generally has hives of Cordoba bees, which are European and therefore they are not as resilient to disease. This may have led to the downfall of the hive at the San Diego Zoo.<br />
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In conclusion, our trip to the zoo was very informational, and provided our group with a new outlook on observation hives in general. In the end, we were left with this question; What makes observation hives work, and why or why not?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This enclosure used to house a bee hive. We got a chance to see it in the San Diego Zoo's Insect House.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is first of the two wild bee hives that we found living at the San Diego Zoo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the second of the two wild bee hives that we found living at the San Diego Zoo.</td></tr>
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