Be Friends with Bees
Mike Abel from the Essex Beekeepers Association will present an illustrated talk on the life-cycles of bees, and their importance to the wider ecology. He will also be able to advise on ways to…
Mike Abel from the Essex Beekeepers Association will present an illustrated talk on the life-cycles of bees, and their importance to the wider ecology. He will also be able to advise on ways to…
Mike Abel from the Essex Beekeepers Association will present an illustrated talk on the life-cycles of bees, and their importance to the wider ecology.
The Government has again put bees at risk by permitting the use of the banned pesticide thiamethoxam on sugar beet in England in 2022.
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
One of our largest and most impressive solitary wasps, the bee wolf digs a nest in sandy spots and hunts honey bees.
Honeybees are famous for the honey they produce! These easily recognisable little bees are hard workers, living in large hives made of wax honeycombs.
The Red Mason Bee is a common, gingery bee that can be spotted nesting in the crumbling mortar of old walls. Encourage bees to nest in your garden by putting out a tin can full of short, hollow…
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…
Find out how our Nature Discovery Centres across Essex are giving bees a helping hand this season.
The Ivy Bee is a new arrival to the UK. First recorded here in 2001, it is slowly spreading north. It feeds exclusively on the nectar of Ivy flowers and can be seen in autumn when this plant is in…