Page 15 - Wildlife News August 2017
P. 15
Create potential Bees’ needs
nest sites
n Visit our website for lots more tips on
how to help bees, including the best
plants to attract them and how to
make a home for bees:
bbowt.org.uk/bees
n Give all pollinators a boost with the
help of the Bucks Buzzing project. Go
online for a wealth of ideas, handy
links and to sign up for free
wildflower seeds:
bucksmknep.co.uk/bucks-buzzing
n Come and see our bee-friendly
wildflower meadow in the Wildlife
Zone at Countryfile Live on 3–6
August: countryfilelive.com
Encourage natural
predators
Have long as well Bees don’t just need nectar and
as short grass pollen. Nest sites and water are
just as important
sweet peas, as well as dandelions, Download your free
blackberries, asters, ivy, and willow, are as Wild Bee Action Pack
attractive to a foraging honey bee as your
carefully cultivated borders. To make it easy for everyone to help wild bees,
we’ve produced a short e-booklet. In it you’ll
A garden without bees not only learn how our many different types of bees live,
reduces its fertility but also diminishes its why they are threatened – and what you can
beauty. You can keep bees as I do, or do to help them flourish. For example, you can
simply provide a source of food for them. revive a tired bee with sugar solution. Find the
But one thing is certain: we cannot do booklet on wildaboutgardensweek.org.uk, our
without them. So as gardeners we long-running collaboration with the RHS.
should do everything we can to welcome
them as an integral part of a beautiful
garden.
Wildlife news / August 2017 15
