Property News · July 14, 2016

Five ways to make your garden into a haven for bees


Kim Stoddart celebrates Bees’ Needs week with her roundup of the best ways to attract pollinators of all kinds to your patchHave you ever listened to the musical sound a bee makes as it works a flower head? Or looked at a wasp as it chews tiny bits of wood off your fence or garden furniture? Wasps may have a chequered reputation, but they are also incredibly useful. They clear the aphids off my plum trees every year without fail. Alongside flies, beetles, butterflies, moths and of course bees, they help to make up the 1,500 species of insects that diligently pollinate our plants.The Bees’ Needs campaign this week highlights how much pollinators across the board need our help. As my local bee expert, Sam Cooper from New Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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