Bee in Solidarity with Pollinators Here are a few ideas of how you can help bees and other pollinators:
1. Support organic farming by buying organic fruits,
vegetables and produce. As organic farming practices are more environmentally friendly, bees, other pollinators and insects are less impacted. A list of farmers, including beekeepers, producing organic food can be found here.
2. Help to maintain bee populations that are being decimated
by pesticides by buying honey from and paying a fair price to a local beekeeper, especially one who is practising organic methods.
3. Avoid using pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and miticides. 4. Build an insect hotel. As our open countryside and woodlands
often lack nesting sites for solitary bees, insect hotels can make up for this loss.
5. Provide habitat in your garden, such as dead tree branches. 6. Plant a wide variety of native flowers (melliferous plants),
and native trees and shrubs so that the bees have a variety of nectar and pollen sources. Buy pesticide-free plants and flowers from the participating organisations in Luxembourg (see the map in the section entitled “Teilnehmende Produzenten” of this page).
7. Provide a bowl of water from which the bees can drink.
Place broken twigs in the bowl so that the bees can climb out of the water if they fall in. More information on wild bees can be found here.
© John Park
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