Comments on: Bee friendly

By: David Banks

David Banks — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:36:34 +0000

If you can’t keep honey bees, and there is a bit of work to keeping hives, then anyone can keep lone orchard bees.

Dead easy, don’t sting, kits available for less than a tenner, or make your own from a few bamboo sticks.

And solitary bees like the lone orchard bee and the red mason bee do far more pollination per bee than honey bees.

We kept one kit last year, and our garden was full of them this year pollinating flowers and fruit.

Downside, of course, is they don’t make honey.

Link to Oxford Bee Company that makes the kits:
http://www.isis-innovation.com/spinout/oxbeeco.html

By: Hope for humble-bees «

Hope for humble-bees « — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:46:42 +0000

[...] the ‘10 election for the Tories – bees with have a friend in the corridor of power if this blogpost by Clwyd West MP David Jones is anything to go [...]

By: Peter Mc

Peter Mc — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:21:50 +0000

We look forward to Mr Jones being the bees friend when in government. And no. I’m not taking the (a)pis.

By: Vanessa Morriss

Vanessa Morriss — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:20:13 +0000

Excellent blog. I’ve been worried about the Honey Bee’s population for years, ever since an elderly lady bought it to my attention in Waitrose one day.
Perhaps we should encourage schools to keep a few hives. Sod health and safety.
I’m a great believer in getting schools more involved in animal husbandry and the countryside. I’ve found it very effective with youngsters.
sonofmuff.