Bee Fact – Number 5

Bees are the best kind of busy bodies that you can have gatecrashing your garden party. But they are under threat from human activity, parasites/diseases, invasive species (the Asian hornet is currently a huge threat) and even their own bee-kind. The Woodland Trust sums this last point up: “Farmed honey bees can also impact our native bees by out-competing them for food….when you increase the number of individual bees in an area you also increase the competition for nectar. This is a particular problem in cities like London.”

Research published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in its State of the World’s Plants and Fungi reports that the proliferation in urban beekeeping has reached ‘unsustainable levels’ that threaten other bee species.

For more information about the Bee Fayre, Wallbarn’s connection to it and how you can support the UK bee population, please click on the following link – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1461674967932367