WHY
WHY
W H Y
Why
Apiculture
Apiculture
Apiculture
Apiculture
BEE FACTS
Bee Facts
BEE FACTS
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According to bee
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Beekeeping provides
an important source of
experts at the Food income for many
and Agriculture rural livelihoods. The
Bees are part of the western honey bee is
Organization (FAO)
biodiversity on the most widespread
of the United managed pollinator
which we all depend
for our survival Nations, a third of globally, and more
the world’s food than 80 million hives
production depends produce an estimated
on bees 1.6 million tonnes of
honey annually
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BEE FACTS
Bee Facts
BEE FACTS
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Bees have six hive
The honeybee is
There are over products — pollen,
responsible for
20,000 bee species honey, beeswax,
nearly a third of
across the globe royal jelly, propolis,
crop pollination and venom
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BEE FACTS
Bee Facts
BEE FACTS
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There are around The smallest of bees
twice as many is just 2 millimetres
Bees are the world’s
species of bees as long while the
top pollinators
there are species of largest is 20 times
birds bigger
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BEE FACTS
Bee Facts
BEE FACTS
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Honeybees need to
store honey in order to
Honeybees and survive the colder
humans have a It takes the months, and it’s so
special lifetime’s work of 12 important to the
relationship. Honey honeybees to make survival of the colony
bees have been one teaspoon of that worker bees
sweetening our lives spend most of their
honey
for 13,000 years lives making honey by
collecting nectar from
flowers
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BEE FACTS
Bee Facts
BEE FACTS
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Next time you buy
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Honeybees
honey, put some communicate by Without bees,
thought into the
dancing. A mealtimes would be
efforts that went
honeybee does the a lot less colourful,
into making it: It
waggle dance to tell as we could lose
takes 55,000 miles
another bee where many types of fruit
of flying for
to find the best and vegetables
honeybees to make
one jar of honey! flowers
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reasons why bees are
important
They help
Bees help provide ½
produce of the Bees help They Bees help
1/3 of the world’s create provide prevent
world’s fibers, oils many food for soil
food and other medicines wildlife erosion
supply raw
materials
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Bees at risk
Bee populations have been declining
globally over recent decades due to habitat
loss, intensive farming practices, changes in
weather patterns and the excessive use of
agrochemicals such as pesticides.
Air pollution affects bees. Research shows that
air pollutants interact with scent molecules
released by plants which bees need to locate
food, interfering with the bees’ ability
to forage efficiently, making them slower and
less effective at pollination
To encourage governments, organizations,
civil society and concerned citizens to
protect pollinators and their habitats, the UN
has declared 20 May World Bee Day to raises
awareness of the essential role bees and
other pollinators play in keeping people and
the planet healthy
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Life without Majority of our nutritious foods are bee-
assisted. No almonds. No apples. No
bees 1 cherries. The list goes on and on.
Humans would lose a healthy, vibrant
diet
The only option without bees is hand
pollination. But hand-pollinating is
expensive. And guess where those costs
2 would be absorbed? By consumers! IF
you could get your hands on fresh fruits
and vegetables — it would cost you an
arm and a leg
Bee declines warn us that we are on a
toxic track. The same pesticides that are
killing bees threaten many other insects,
which are the basis of our ecosystems.
3 And these toxic chemicals contaminate
the air, water and soil harming the vital
soil communities we need to grow our 10
food
ACTIONS FOR YOU TO TAKE TO HELP PRESERVE
BEES AND OTHER POLLINATORS
ACTIONS FOR YOU TO TAKE TO HELP PRESERVE
BEES AND OTHER POLLINATORS
Plant nectar-bearing
flowers such as marigolds Cut grass on meadows
or sunflowers for only after the nectar-
decorative purposes on bearing plants have
balconies, terraces, and finished blooming
gardens
Raise awareness among
Set up a pollinator farm on children and
your balcony, terrace, or adolescents on the
garden importance of bees and
express your support for
beekeepers
Preserve old meadows, Buy honey and other hive
which feature a more products from your nearest
diverse array of flowers, local beekeeper
and sow nectar-bearing
plants
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