» Listings for August 2018

1. Bees Need Flowers

   Posted on 6:30am Tuesday 21st Aug 2018

   There’s been a lot of social media posts recently advocating making bee feeders and leaving out sugar water for bees.  For lots of reasons this is a really bad idea (please see previous blog https://www.thelittlehoneybeecompany.com/blog/read_185365/why-leaving-sugar-water-out-for-bees-is-such-a-bad-idea.html ). 

   Sugar water will give bees a quick energy boost so is still good to revive a tired bee, but it doesn’t meet all their nutritional needs.  They need nectar and pollen, both of which are provided by flowers in varying quantities.  That means bees are vegetarian.

   

   (Solitary bee on fleabane)

2. Bees Eat Honey, Don't They?

   Posted on 12:00pm Tuesday 14th Aug 2018

   We all know bees eat honey.  But do they? 

   

   There are approximately 280ish different types of bee in the UK.  Only one of them is the honey bee.  26 are bumble bees and the others are all solitary bees.