Bees

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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: 12
Latest Activity: Oct 30, 2018

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 James Diamond Sep 12, 2013. 0 Replies 0 Likes

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Comment by Mike Martin on October 15, 2012 at 11:34: We at London Fields would like to fund a few small leaf lime trees. These have an abundance of flowers and are the favourite of bees. They are a native tree and they say they are the source of the finest honey. Read about the lime tree. http://www.rfs.org.uk/learning/Limes

Other uses for limes. http://www.dalswildlifesite.com/thesmallleavedlimetree.htm

https://www.facebook.com/london.fields.park.community

Comment by Russell Miller on October 8, 2012 at 17:10: Yes many bees are dying off. Queens will be looking to hibernate. That said the weather is unpredictable and so are the bees. Indeed in London it is believed many species, eg some bumblebees, have second broods over winteer. This is due to the volume of winter forage provided by exotic shrubbery like Mahonia, Prunus subhirtilla and Lonicera fragrentissima.

Comment by Russell Miller on October 3, 2012 at 16:54: I have posted some photographs of wild bees seen in Hackney. These are a few of the 350 native species. See my 'bees' album.