How to Stop the Declining Honeybee Population
- 1). Get in touch with the British Beekeeping Association and join the organizatoin, where for around $50 you can "adopt" a beehive. This will help vital research into the health of bees and beekeeper education.
The National Beekeeping Centre
National Agricultural Centre
Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire CV8 2LG
02476-696-679
britishbee.org.uk - 2). Choose a hive to support anywhere in the United Kingdom from London to the wilds of northernmost Scotland.
The British Beekeepers Association
The National Beekeeping Centre
National Agricultural Centre
Stoneleigh Park,
Warwickshire, United Kingdom CV8 2LG
adoptabeehive.co.uk - 3). Support your native bees in the United States instead by supporting through donation "The Bee Native" Group. The Bee Native Group teaches residents on Indian Reservations to set up a bee yard. The "Honeybee Conservancy" also has a similar scheme.
Bee Native
11 West 25th Street
7th Floor, New York, New York State 10010
917-679-0567
beenative.org - 4). Donate to "The Foundation for the Preservation of the Honeybee," the charitable part of the American Beekeeping Federation which funds science graduates to research on this subject.
115 Morning Glory Circle
Jesup, GA 31546-1522
912-427-4018
honeybeepreservation.org - 1). Plant flowers, plants and herbs that will attract bees, such as asters, sunflowers, hollyhocks, larkspur, foxgloves, mint, peas, beans and flowering herbs.
- 2). Make a window box with any of these flowers and herbs to attract the bees and help the bee population.
- 3). Plant fruit trees. If you have got a garden and enough space, fruit trees are a good source of pollen. In a garden you could also plant shrubs such as buddleia, hebe and hydrangea, as the bees will be drawn to these plants.
- 1). Contact the local authority/council and try to rally them into using green spaces that are unused or wasted for planting honeybee-friendly plants.
- 2). Get a community group together to see if there is anything that you could do to raise awareness and do something practical.
- 3). Contact your local school or suggest in a parent-teachers meeting that the children make a honeybee-friendly garden at the school. Raising awareness in children is vital to preserving the bee population.