As most people are aware our bee populations are in trouble. They help keep the rest of nature alive, primarily though their pollination efforts.

They have been dying in their millions over the last decade. Over use of pesticides, Mites, lack of useful plants, lack of hives seem to have all contributed to their demise.

For the financially minded the guesstimates of the cost that the work bees do for humans is astronomical. But the end result of the annihilation of bees would be crop failures and complete dependence on artificially pollinated crops, or even the possible downfall of humanity.

People wanting to help protect bees and reverse this ecocide, can keep Bees, plant bee loving plants, not use pesticides, buy organic food and support organisation helping them.

Download this easy to follow plan showing you how to build your own Beehive.

HOW TO BUILD A TOP BAR HIVE

by P J Chandler

Click here to download a free copy of the DIY Beehive pdf

This free book is a supplement to the barefoot beekeeper, available from www.biobees.com

From the company that made the popular chicken houses ‘Eglu’ comes the ‘Beehaus.’

Click this weblink to visit the Beehaus website

www.omlet.co.uk/Beehaus

Bridget Strawbridge of The Big Green Idea is an excellent source of information on Bees www.thebiggreenidea.org/bee-friendly

Helping bees and bee keepers in the UK      www.britishbee.org.uk

American Beekeeping Federation       www.abfnet.org

International Bee Research Association     www.ibra.org.uk

This pdf has some suggested flowers useful to bumblebees     Download a pdf of Suggested flowers for bumblebees here

pdf from   www.buglife.org.uk

“Loss of the world’s genetic diversity would be worse than energy depletion, economic collapse, limited nuclear war or conquest by a totalitarian government .As terrible as those catastrophes would be for us, they could be repaired in a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980’s that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us”. E.O Wilson

Posted by Michael Horsnell

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