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THURSDAY. APRIL 15. 2004 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 7B
By Susan White, Librarian
National Library Week will be
observed April 18-24. First spon
sored in 1958, National Library
Week is a national observance
sponsored by libraries across the
country each April. It is a time to
celebrate the contributions of our
nation’s libraries and librarians and
to promote library use and support.
All types of libraries - school, pub
lic, academic and special - partici
pate. A library carnival will be held
on Saturday, April 17, 11 a.m. to 4
p.m. As a kickoff for National
Library Week, this carnival will be
fun for all children. Every child
with a library card will receive five
free tickets. Additional tickets may
be purchased at the carnival. Every
one wins - games, cake walks, con
tests and more... Be sure to come
for a day full of fun.
'In the display case at the library
from now until the end of April is a
collection of spring items belonging
to Ann Parks of Talking Rock.
These items include bird figurines
and many different rabbit figures.
The rabbits are made from ceram
ics, glass, wood, metal and fabric.
Be sure to come to the library and
see this beautiful display.
Free hands-on computer classes
are being taught at the Pickens
County Public Library. On April 19,
“Introduction to the Computer” is
being taught at 10 a.m. On April 23,
“Introduction to the Internet” is
being taught at 10 a.m. and “Intro
duction to E-Mail” is being taught
at 1 p.m. On April 29, “Introduction
to the Internet” is being taught at 10
a.m. and “Introduction to Word” is
being taught at 1. Registration and a
$10 deposit are necessary. The
deposit will be refunded when the
person registered attends the class.
These classes are limited to four
persons each. They can fill up fast
so be sure to register as early as
possible.
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On Sunday, April 4, Jasper resident John Sosebee competed in and won the Clubman and Super
Motard races at Talladega Gran Prix Raceway in Alabama. The races were the latest in the WERA
southeast regional road racing series.
Sosebee raced as a novice in both races, but he beat all the experts in the Super Motard race, which
he won by a six second margin. The next WERA southeast race will be April 17 & 18 at Barber
Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.
The previous weekend, on March 27, Sosebee and George Gentle of Hinton came in second place
in the middleweight superstock race in the Dunlop/WERA National Endurance series at Jennings
Gran Prix in Florida. The team, riding a Yamaha R6, lost the six-hour race by a 40 second margin.
The next Endurance race will be in Nashville at the end of this month.
Sosebee wishes to thank Thermos Man Suspensions and Michelin Tires for contributing to his per
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How do you deal with bees in the garden?
Do you know of plants
bees don’t like?
UGA Extension Service
horticulturist wants to know.
By Paul A. Thomas
University of Georgia
Bees are good. Fruit trees, farm
and garden crops and almost all
native plants depend on bees, our
best pollinators, to reproduce. But
that doesn't mean bees are welcome
in everyone's garden.
Some people (0.4 percent of the
population) have serious allergic
reactions to bee stings. They're
always concerned when they see
any kind of bee.
Dozens of true bee species are in
Georgia gardens. Most are small
and rarely sting. Or if they do, their
stings are mild. In 15 years of
developing butterfly and humming
bird gardens. I've never been stung,
nor have my active boys, despite
being surrounded by bees nine
months of the year.
Most insect stings, though, aren't
from bumblebees or even honey
bees. The No. 1 culprit is the yel
low jacket.
These ground-dwelling wasps
are fairly aggressive scavengers.
They're attracted to anything sweet
or rotting. You can be in a 100-acre
lawn with no flowers and still be
stung by yellow jackets.
Even then, these insects are only
reacting to perceived threats to their
nests when they sting. They're not
out to get you.
Honeybees and bumblebees defi
nitely have better things to do than
search you out. Following a few
common sense rules will keep your
chances of being stung in the gar
den tiny.
Strong perfumes, for instance,
may attract defensive insects if
you're near their nests. Sometimes
what you eat for breakfast can
attract a bee. The odor of banana,
for example, mimics an alarm
chemical honeybees use to alert
nest-mates to danger.
In the garden, keep three things
in mind.
1. Move slowly, especially near
flowers bees are feeding on.
2. Watch your hands. If you
Photo: Jack Dykinga, USDA/ARS
Honeybees aren't the bad guys. They're vital pollinators and
rarely sting. And following common sense rules can make you even
less likely to be stung.
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brush a bee off a flower, it may
instinctively cling to you. If you do
nothing, it will almost always fly
off. This may require a minute or so
of bravery. If it stays on your shirt
or skin, a slow brushing-off will
usually do the trick. Never try to
hit, swat or pick off the bee.
3. Never go into a garden or
lawn with bare feet. Stepping on a
honeybee in the clover is a common
way to get stung.
Watch for insect nests, too.
Bumblebees and yellow jackets rear
their young in shallow underground
nests. Bumblebees prefer grassy
areas at the edge of woods or near
large rocks. Yellow jackets seem to
like soft soil in the sun but protect
ed by grass or other small plants.
Look for insects flying back and
forth in the same direction near the
ground. That's almost always a sign
that a colony is nearby.
You can grow plants that don't
attract stinging insects, too. What
ever attracts hummingbirds and but
terflies will attract scads of bees.
But don't mow off the butterfly gar
den yet.
Many of the most attractive
plants are natives. Joe Pye weed,
for instance, attracts wasps and yel
low jackets like a magnet. Monar-
da, Echinacea and even azaleas
attract bees.
Many ornamental imports lure
bees, too. Good examples are abelia
bushes, chaste trees (Vitex), butter
fly bushes (Buddleia), hybrid azal
eas, and perennials and annuals
such as Mexican sunflowers (Titho-
nia), salvias, snapdragons, sedums
and phlox.
Plants that don't attract bees are
less common. They include culti-
vars of dianthus, geraniums,
chrysanthemums, marigolds,
strawflowers, some zinnias and
many roses.
We don't yet have a long list of
plants that don't attract bees. Much
more research needs to be done.
After a large University of Georgia
student project this summer, we
hope to publish an extensive list of
garden plants that don't attract bees
or wasps this fall.
You can help us out. Spend some
time in the garden and send your
observations to Paul Thomas at
pathomas@uga.edu. Let us know
what plants bees don't seem to visit.
We'll add them to the list to be eval
uated.
In the meantime, enjoy the bees.
(Paul Thomas is an Extension
Service horticulturist with the Uni
versity of Georgia College of Agri
cultural and Environmental Sci
ences. CAES entomologist Keith
Delaplane also contributed to this
article.)
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