Petition: Pledge to Participate in No Mow May To Protect Bees

No Mow May is an amazing campaign that started in the town of Appleton, Wisconsin, and now people all over the country are participating! The plan is to avoid cutting your grass throughout the entire month of May to allow native flowers to bloom and provide pollinators like bees with an early forage.

Yards are destroying the vital source of nectar for bees and threatening their vulnerable population. In addition to benefiting pollinators, pledging to reduce the frequency of mowing will save water and reduce emissions from gas-powered lawn equipment.

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In just one week of the No Mow May initiative in Appleton, a sample of no-mow may lawns indicated there was a fivefold increase in bee abundance and a threefold increase in bee diversity compared to nearby parkland that was mowed regularly. Sign this petition to pledge that you will help protect bees by not mowing your lawn in May!

To continue speaking up, sign these other petitions as well:

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• Demand The NBA Hire More Women as Coaches Next Season
• End Female Genital Mutilation in Malaysia
• Demand This High School Provide Resources For Survivors of Sexual Assault
• Charge Parents Who Give Kids Unsupervised Access to Guns
• Residents in Shanghai Are Locked In Their Apartments 
• Pledge to Participate in No Mow May To Protect Bees
• Ban All Fur Trapping in the United States

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