Beekeepers Rejoice!
This Saturday, August 19th is World Honey Bee Day (previously known as Honey Bee Awareness Day), bee keepers across the country join in a national effort to help safeguard declining honey bee population. Bee enthusiasts are celebrating honey bees but also promoting their involvement in sustainable farming. Bees play a vast role in our everyday lives and the pollination of our crops, it is said every third bite of food is a result of honey bees. In recent years, there has been a staggering drop in the population of honey bees; do to the loss of habitat, world climate change, parasites and farming pesticide use. Go Green Pest Control has been building a registry that brings beekeepers and homeowners together in an effort to protect honey bee swarms, three times this summer alone. We have had continued success in relocating honey bee swarms to new locations, using local beekeepers that help protect both public safety and the bees (honey bees and bumblebees). Bee swarming happens when a queen bee leaves an overpopulated colony, she will take thousands of worker bees with her and travel from a tree to a home or bee hive to barn or shed. So on Saturday, bee lovers everywhere decorate their gardens with lavender, borage and marjoram, the bee’s knees in pollinator lures.
Gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beekeepers-rejoice-randy-bilesky?published=t
http://www.delta-optimist.com/opinion/blogs/blog-beekeepers-rejoice-1.22012157
