Help your backyard pollinators!
One of the important role bees have are to pollinate fruits, vegetables, crops and flowers. In fact, they pollinate one-third of the food we eat. The most active time for bees are in Spring, Summer and Autumn. Observing bees in your backyard through the warmer seasons, pollinating gardens is a natural sight. Try not to be frightened of the bee activity. As this bee activity enables flowers to reproduce by making seeds or fruits. The idea of a Bee Bath is to create a source of fresh water that has places for bees to perch (for example rocks) as they drink and collect water. So, lets help these busy bees out by installing a bee bath in our gardens, so they can stop for light refreshments along the way.
Make a Bee Bath
1. Find a shallow dish.
2. Fill the dish with rocks, broken plant pots or crockery, corks.
3. Put it on a stand or on a log in a shady area in the garden.
4. Fill with fresh water so the tops of the stones are not submerged.
5. Change the water daily and clean the dish weekly.
Perhaps these books will bee of interest to you:
-
The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden grow by Doug Purdie - Also available as an eBook (Borrow Box)
-
Fast Facts about Bees by Lisa J. Amstutz
-
Backyard Bees: a complete guide for the beginner beekeeper or bee enthusiast by Doug Purdie
-
Beekeepers Lab: 52 Family Friendly activities and experiments exploring the life of the hive by Kim Lehman
-
Buzz about Bees by Kari-Lynn Winters
-
Can we really help the bees? : Yes you can by Katie Daynes
Further resources to keep you buzzing:
