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WORLD BEE DAY - 20th May

Bees (Clade Anthophila): One out of every three bites of food we eat is a result of Pollinators like Honey Bees (genus Apis).

Crops like blueberries and cherries are 90 per cent dependent on pollination. Honey bees are so important that farmers often have bee hives transported and then placed on their farm to provide pollination for their crops.

If you look at the plate of food on your dinner table, bees have played their part either pollinating the many vegetables and fruits we eat directly, or pollinating the food for the animals that we then consume. And that’s not all bees do for us - honey and wax are two other important products that come courtesy of bees, but honey bees are disappearing globally at an alarming rate due to pesticides, parasites, disease, habitat and Biodiversity loss. If these little insects that help provide so much of the food we eat were to vanish, what would we do without them?

Lots of honey bees lose their way at times, possibly due to the mobile network towers but research is ongoing. If you find a tired bee struggling the simplest thing you could do is put tired bees onto flowers, where they may be able to find nectar which, unlike sugar solution, contains nutrients they need. In a matter of a few minutes the bee will sip it up and fly back. Try it..!!

Planting locally native flowering Plants around your home or garden if you have one helps provide forage for bees and pollinators..

You never know when a frog family is watching you.

Trees are vital. As the biggest plants on the planet, they give us oxygen, store carbon, stabilise the soil and give life to the world's wildlife. Ocean plankton actually provides more oxygen but Trees also provide us with the materials for tools and shelter 🌱 🌿

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”

🌍 David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World