I’m as busy as a summer bee lately, but squeezed in some time to write a guest blog post for London based organic kids clothing company Little Green Radicals. They wanted to know about my experience with bees and how the environment is affecting them. Here it is…
The Little Green Radicals Cornish copper print. “Wander through hedgerows full of Cornish Copper flowers”
“You may have heard that bees are not doing so well lately. But which bees? When you imagine a bee, you might think of a busy honey bee hard at work in a hive. Or perhaps of a fuzzy, furry bumble bee, gently buzzing its way through a wildflower meadow.
In reality though, the European honey bee Apis mellifera, which I and thousands of other British beekeepers keep, is not endangered. Neither is the craft of beekeeping – members of the British Beekeeping Association (BBKA) have soared from 8,463 members in 2003 to just under 25,000 members in 2016. We are a lively community, passionate about our bees and the environment they live in….”
Read the rest of the post at littlegreenradicals.co.uk/save-the-bees
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That’s a headline I’ll get behind any day of the week!
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Yes – uncontroversial! But a message that needs to get out.
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So great you got a chance to spread the word – it is so much needed. I was at a small conference on pollination yesterday. The speaker was an entomologist and was talking not only about the lack of bees but of other insects so necessary for a healthy environment. He felt that the Natural Science studies were much poorer in schools (even primary) than before. Amelia
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What a shame that the curriculum doesn’t do more to help children appreciate the natural world. I will be trying my best with Tommy. He has already started by eating daisies!
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I’m glad you addressed the what has now become a meme about bees being endangered. It is something that is thrown about quite a lot on blogs, in newspapers etc and not followed up with any real knowledge of what is happening.
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Thanks. Yes, the ‘Save the bees’ message gets repeated a lot by the media but often the stories are lacking in detail.
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