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The Plight Of The Honey Bee
Bees & other pollinating insects are susceptible to a variety of disease and environmental threats, including climate change, and more research is desperately needed to find out why they are declining and what can be done to reverse the trend.
Albert Einstein was said to have calculated that:
"If bees disappeared off the surface of the planet, then Man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more life."
Dwindling bee numbers are not just a British problem. Worldwide, apiarists have been distressed by their dying honeybee colonies, not least in the U.S, where a syndrome tagged "colony collapse disorder" has meant bee losses of 30-90%
Defra have announced that the extra £2m for bee research funding announced in January has been increased to a £10m research programme to tackle bee & pollinator deline.
The Last of the Honey bees by K. Martin
Help the bees with some of the suggestions below:
- Grow native wild flowers & other bee friendly plants in your garden
- Start bee keeping
- support your local bee keepers
- Join your local beekeeping association
- Leave piles of leaves and debris untouched in a quiet area of your garden
- Wash empty honey jars, before you put them in the recycle bin