Today is World Bee Day.
The main purpose of the event is to spread awareness of the significance of bees and other pollinators for our survival.
For centuries bees, among the hardest working creatures on the planet, have benefited people, plants and the environment. By carrying pollen from one flower to another, bees and other pollinators enable not only the production of an abundance of fruits, nuts and seeds, but also more variety and better quality, contributing to food security and nutrition.
Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats, affect 35 percent of the world’s crop production, increasing outputs of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, plus many plant-derived medicines. Three out of four crops across the globe producing fruits or seeds for human use as food depend, at least in part, on pollinators.
Beekeepers and nature conservationists would like to ask everybody to help improve the conditions for bees,
You can do that in many ways including:
-Planting nectar-bearing flowers
-Buying honey and other hive products from your nearest local beekeeper.
-Using pesticides that do not harm bees
The 20th of May was chosen as World Bee Day because it is the birth date of Anton Janša (1734–1773), a Slovenian beekeeper, the pioneer of modern beekeeping and one of the greatest authorities on the subject of bees.
For more details on World Bee Day, please click here.
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