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B&Q info - help support our vanishing bee population
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/content/marketing/bees/index
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sorry TN
Now it works.
I have a real phobia about bees (and wasps), but I don't want to see them die out (quite happy for wasps to sling their hooks, mind you).
I love lavender, but have not got any purely because it attracts them. My back garden where we sit out isn't very bee-friendly at all, I'm afraid, but I've made up for it in the front where I have flowers galore... though I do have to cover up from head to toe if I climb around amongst them to weed (doesn't happen very often). I'm easy to find if I go out there. I'm the one squealing and running in circles.
However, whilst B&Q might be applauded for getting us to buy bee-friendly plants for our gardens, they are really only cashing in on the bee decline. Bees are hardly likely to live comfortably in our gardens then go off to work each day pollinating the farmers' crops. The real problem is no mystery. It's pesticides in the main - added to loss of habitat in the wild. Why not try signing the Friends of the Earth petition to try and get the Government to do something about it before it's too late?
https://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/bee_cause_david_cameron_petition_39395.html?utm_expid=4681116-13&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foe.co.uk%2Fwhat_we_do%2F35522.htm
Supported by greed or not, planting bee-friendly plants can only help the bee population, and raising the bee populations will mean more queens spreading further and into more territories and of course that will be farmland as well as rural areas.
Gardens cover a massive area of our country and could replace the habitat which has been lost to bees for foraging.
Also, it's not just honey bees that are suffering, there are many bumble bees and other types of bee that are suffering a lack of nectar, so anything planted will also help them.
No Gvt could possibly cover everything that needs doing, i think people who are standing back and have their finger on the pulse of different aspects of human life should be able and should be the ones to say - hang on, this is wrong, something needs doing.
Our Gvt in this instance took no notice of the people, too much big business interest no doubt but in europe and the Europea Union have taken notice, and by signing the various things to lend ones suppor i think the weight of public opio on the matter has been registered.
I'd much rather have a flow of information no matter how infuriating and worrying than silence and having to trust those in charge who might never notice the plight of bees or come within a mile of understanding the significance.