Do We Need Bees? Bees are incredibly important members of our ecosystem! Without them, the world would be a very different place.
Beehive designs haven’t changed since the 1940s.
Illustrations for a project about the importance of bees on nature and biodiversity.
Here's a really interesting article on how beekeepers in Slovenia keep their bees: Slovenian Beekeeping The article lists the advantag...
Postings from Penn State Master Gardeners of Lehigh and Northampton Counties
Bees are vital to a healthy environment and healthy economy. They're also simply beautiful and fascinating little insects. But what makes them so special?
Bumblebees forage for pollen or nectar. Pollen contains protein and nectar contains carbohydrate. Whilst bumblebees often have strong preferences for certain flowers (or families of flowers) when foraging for pollen....they are less fussy about which flowers they collect nectar from.
Protecting pollinator habitat and cutting back on the use of bee-killing pesticides can help save bees of all stripes.
Once you have learned the ropes, you can build your own DIY beehive and get started. Imagine the honey that you will have on hand!
10 simple things we can all do to help save the bee population.
Happenings in the insect world
How many types of bees are there? Amazingly, more than 20,000 known types of bees inhabit our planet! Bees are some of the world’s best pollinators! Without them, we would not have the food we need to survive. Keep reading to learn about pollination and different types of bees around the world! Then download our
We need to save the bees, we all know this but do we really know why and how to save them?
Mason bees are an important native species of bee. We need to do what we can to ensure there survival and the betterment of our crops.
We are all becoming aware of how important bees are to our ecology and how we need to halt their decline and encourage more of them into our gardens. In this course you will learn how to embroider some bees, set the context with a beehive and learn make to the hexagon patchwork structure used by the bees to hold their honey. We might even have time to pull a little bit of
Bees need flowers to live, and we need bees to pollinate our crops. Understanding bee vision can help us better support our buzzy friends and the critical pollination services they provide.
There are different ways to feed your bees sugar water when they need a little help. We like using a frame feeder best. #TexasHomesteader
Explore the long history between bees and humans in America, including the ways we cultivate bees and rely on them to pollinate the crops we need to survive.
Our honeybees need to be fed every 4-5 days. Since we have brand-new hives and our bees began their journey here without any honey already ...
Rather than saying “we need to save the bees”, let's focus on small practical solutions that we can all make to Bee the Change.
