10 easy ways to help bees

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Bees are vital to a healthy environment and healthy economy. They’re also simply beautiful and fascinating little insects. Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and therefore keeping the cycle of life turning.

Biodiversity and environmental protection Bees are vital for the preservation of ecological balance and biodiversity in nature. They provide one of the most recognisable ecosystem services, i.e. pollination, which is what makes food production possible.

Without bees, they would set fewer seeds and would have lower reproductive success. This too would alter ecosystems. Beyond plants, many animals, such as the beautiful bee-eater birds, would lose their prey in the event of a die-off, and this would also impact natural systems and food webs.

1. Set up a bee garden right away.
2. How does a bee garden grow?
3. Plant through the seasons to provide year-round bee habitat.
4. Ask for advice on the best plants for bees.
5. Plant a mix of bee-friendly seeds and grow plants, fruit and veg.
6. Give bees shelter by letting the grass grow.
7. Save the bees and put away the pesticides.

They play a vital role in the ecosystem, pollinating flowering plants. Many are in peril; some species have disappeared. And then there’s the honeybee: originally imported from Europe, raised and managed by beekeepers in order to make honey or to pollinate crops like almonds.

Domesticated farmed bees can actually spread diseases to the pollinators who were there first and actually are endangered. They also crowd them out by competing with them for pollen. Just like any other species domesticated for human exploitation, both farmed and feral honeybees wreak ecological havoc.

They pollinate a third of our food. One out of every three bites you put in your mouth was pollinated by honeybees. In addition to pollinating crops such as apples, almonds, broccoli strawberries, cucumbers and cotton, bees also pollinate alfalfa seeds which are used for beef and dairy feed.

Scientific studies show that Honey Bees prefer the music genre of “Bee-Bop” more than anything.

Naturally Repel Bees and Keep Them Away

• Garlic Powder. Bees are not fond of the smell of garlic, so to discourage them from being near your house, sprinkle some garlic powder near where you’ve seen them.
• Peppermint.
• Cinnamon.
• Distilled Vinegar.
• Citronella Candles.
• Hire Removal Service.
• Soap Solution.
• Mothballs.

NO – Bumblebees do not like to be petted. But they will tolerate some contact. I can pick them up off flowers by holding the flower in my hand and lifting it over the petals until the bee is actually standing on my hand. Most often they will pick up some of the pollen dusting my fingers and fly off.

The most likely colors to attract bees, according to scientists, are purple, violet and blue. Bees also have the ability to see color much faster than humans. Their color vision is the fastest in the animal world-five times faster than humans.

Avoid Violet, Blue And Yellow Flowers Bees’ favorite colors are blue, violet and yellow, so planting these hues in your garden is like putting out a all-you-can-eat buffet sign. Avoid planting bee-favorites like sunflowers, violets, lavender, foxglove and crocuses.

Bees cannot handle vinegar, causing them to die almost instantaneously after exposure. Simply mixing a solution of strong vinegar and water is all you have to do to get rid of small amounts of bees in your home. If you want to prevent bees from coming back, you might want to set up areas of your house with vinegar.

Choose the best bee-friendly summer plants Allium (especially Allium sphaerocephalon), borage, catmint (Nepeta) Cirsium rivulare, foxglove (Digitalis) and most herbs will throng with all manner of different wild bees.

Their sunny, golden lion-like heads are an excellent foil for other blooming plants, and marigolds bloom all season. The plants do not repel honeybees, however. Marigolds and honeybees go together like beans and rice. So increase your marigolds and honeybees will come flocking.

Why are bees attracted to flowers?

• Pollen from one flower needs to travel to another.
• To encourage bees to visit them, flowers have colourful petals and an attractive scent.
• Some flowers give the bees a sugary reward called nectar too.
• It’s not just plants that need bees; we need them too.
• Without them we’d have very little food.

The shrub is actually considered to be invasive, meaning it competes with the native plants in the area and will continue to spread and be harmful to the local eco-system. Not only is butterfly bush harmful for the eco-system but it’s also an ineffective host plant for butterflies despite the name.

Where is the best place to put hummingbird feeders? Should you hang them in the sun or shade? Hummingbird feeders should be placed to receive morning sun and afternoon shade. Hummingbird nectar can go bad more quickly if the feeder is hanging in the sun all day.

Here are 5 common reasons why hummingbirds don’t come to your feeder: It is the wrong time of year. You are using the wrong nectar recipe. The feeders are in the wrong location.

The mixture must always be four parts boiled water to one part sugar. Too little sugar will not provide the necessary calories; too much sugar can harm the liver and kidneys of hummingbirds. Use only granulated white cane sugar and fresh water. Store bought hummingbird food contains preservatives; avoid it.

It’s a fair question, but you shouldn’t worry about creating a generation of feeder-dependent, sugar-water swilling junkies. Their parents and instinct will teach them about feeding from flowers, but more importantly, the nectar is just one part of the hummingbird’s diet.