This is a group for people who are concerned about the decline of bees, and are working locally to help them or would like to get involved.
Friends of the Earth’s Bee Cause campaign is currently calling for a national bee action plan while raising awareness of the need to help bees.
Locally, many groups and individuals have been planting bee-friendly plants and Hackney Council has created several new wildflower meadows.
Please use this group to share what you are doing to help bees - as well as news or photos of bees that you've seen in Hackney.
Website: http://www.foe.co.uk/groups/hackney/
Location: Biodiversity
People: 13
Latest Activity: Oct 30, 2018
Hackney's 50 bee species - A Talk by Russell Miller 16 June 2016
Bee Walk at West Hackney Rec June 2016
Capital Bee - campaigning for a bee-friendly London.
Royal Horticultural Society: lists of recommended wild flowers and
cultivated flowers that are 'Perfect for Pollinators.'
River of Flowers - a project to sow corridors of wildflowers throughout London and beyond.
Hackney Citizen article about the bee campaign, and what you can do to help bees.
News story on the Tower Habitats website about the campaign, and Hackney & Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth's recent 'bee walk.'
Report of the bee walk on Friends of the Earth's website.
Started by Katherine Pitt Sep 12, 2015. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Couple of things:1. Friends of the Earth is taking the government to court over it's decision to allow the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in some areas of England this autumn.…Continue
Tags: pesticides, pollinators, bees, biodiversity
Started by James Diamond Sep 12, 2013. 0 Replies 0 Likes
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Started by Katherine Pitt. Last reply by Katherine Pitt Nov 1, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Article from the BBC website which reports that the London Beekeepers Association is saying that there may be too many beehives in central London while at the same time there is not enough food…Continue
Started by Katherine Pitt. Last reply by Tim Evans Oct 31, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes
According to the Good Food for London report 2012, Hackney 'has made a commitment to…Continue
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New blog on bees and trees in early spring
Buff tailed bumblebee queens emerging at Daubeney Orcahrd.
4 species at King Henry's Walk Garden today:
honey bee, hairy footed flower bee (males); buff tailed bumblebee (too small for a queen, = over wintering colony??); tiny unidentified species.
I'll try and take another, but it's not easy.. There are loads of them like that in my garden at the moment (near Newington Green)..
Hi Kathryn
Got any other pics of your bee?
Not sure as to id from the one you posted.
R
That's fantastic news!!!
Result for Friends of the Earth!!! The government has announced a national pollinator strategy. See
http://www.foe.co.uk/news/government_national_pollinator_strategy_4...
New and even more damning study of neonics by an international panel including Dave Goulson. Note the emphasis on field realistic exposures, which is one of the industry's smokescreens. The British Bee Keepers Association continues to refuse to call for a ban.
"At field realistic exposure levels, neonicotinoids produce a wide range of adverse sublethal effects in honeybee colonies and bumblebee colonies, affecting colony performance through impairment of foraging success, brood and larval development, memory and learning, damage to the central nervous system, susceptibility to diseases, hive hygiene etc.
Neonicotinoids synergistically reinforce infectious agents such as N. ceranae and exhibit synergistic toxicity with other agrochemicals.
The large impact of short term field realistic exposure of bumblebee colonies on long term bumblebee queen production (85% reduction) could be a key factor contributing to the global trends of bumblebee decline.
Only a few studies assessed the toxicity to other wild pollinators, but the available data suggest that they are likely to exhibit similar toxicity to all wild insect pollinators.
The worldwide production of neonicotinoids is still increasing. In view of the vital importance of the service insect pollinators provide to both natural ecosystems and farming, they require a high level of protection. Therefore a transition to pollinator-friendly alternatives to neonicotinoids is urgently needed for the sake of the sustainability of pollinator ecosystem services."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343513000493
'Neonicotinoids, bee disorders and the sustainability of pollinator services', van der Sluijs et al, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability in press 6 June 2013
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