What are you planning for #WorldBeeDay ?

World Bee Day is observed on 20 May each year to draw attention to the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy.

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Deforestation is one of the biggest threats to beekeeping, and the estimates of deforestation rates in Zimbabwe are alarmingly high at around 262,000 hectares per year.

Read more about the amazing work by our partners, Working for Bees here: beesfordevelopment.org/blog/green-mat…

*World Bee 🐝 Day 2024*

*ANTICIPATE!*
The Largest Gathering of Young Beekeepers🐝 and Honey Vendors🍯In Africa.

BEE ENGAGED WITH YOUTHS

#May20 #Worldbeeday #Savethebees #bees
#YouthsforApicultureDevelopment
#YouthsforApiTreePlanting
#YouthsAgainstAdulterationofHoney

What are you reading on #WorldBookDay ?

#Bee engaged with the youth.

#WorldBeeDay 2024 is around.

Concerted efforts needed to protect all #bees & other #pollinators from the pesticide menace in EA.

A region constantly facing food insecurity, conserving them becomes critical towards achieving #agroecology balance.

Happy #EarthDay !

Today we celebrate our vital pollinators and their impact on our planet. Let's all commit to protecting them and planting bee-friendly blooms!

#SaveTheBees #pollinators

Happy #EarthDay !

Today we celebrate our vital pollinators and their impact on our planet. Let's all commit to protecting them and planting bee-friendly blooms!

#SaveTheBees #pollinators

It's not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating crops, new research from York University has found.

phys.org/news/2024-04-h…

It's not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating crops, new research from York University has found.

phys.org/news/2024-04-h…

Some bees are just too cute!

📸: Joe Neely

The National Bee Unit has updated its excellent Managing Varroa leaflet

This update incorporates the most up to date information on Varroa treatments and the biology of Varroa mites.

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📢 The 8th Muğla Beekeeping and Pine Honey Congress will be held in Muğla on 24 - 27 November 2024!

More details 👇
muglacongress.org/eng/eng

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating!

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating!

Honeybees tend to get the most attention, but in Britain alone there are about 270 species of bee

theguardian.com/environment/20…

The voracious Asian hornet – the invertebrate symbol of our dark times.

This species has rapidly spread through western Europe, with a huge impact on other flying insect populations

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

Join Food and Agriculture Organization and MFEA Slovenia for the International forum for action on sustainable beekeeping and pollination

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22-23 May 2024

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Did you know #pollinators help minimize the impact of #ClimateChange on food security?

How? Their diversity. 🐞🦋🪰🐝

Pollinators have different traits & responses to various temperatures & habitats, which means that we have different pollinators suitable to different climates.

📢 In case you missed it!

Watch the recording of the webinar on invasive species in Europe

🐝 apimondia.org/webinar-invasi…