Wildlife presenters Steve Backshall, Michaela Strachan and Miranda Krestovnikoff are urging people to get outside and take part in the Great British Bee Count 2015, which is taking place throughout the month of May (1-31 May 2015).
Organised by Friends of the Earth, Buglife and Waitrose, the Great British Bee Count aims to build on the huge success of last year’s inaugural event, when over 23,000 people took part, spotting over 830,000 bees.
Gardeners are also being encouraged to take easy steps (see below) to make their gardens more bee-friendly, and help provide crucial havens for our threatened pollinators. The forthcoming Bank Holiday weekend provides an ideal opportunity to get started.
Allotments (with an average of 12 bees spotted per count) and gardens (8) were two of the top three most popular habitats in last year’s bee count – with the countryside (10) being the third.
Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall said: “Bees are our pals; without their pollinating powers, our planet would grind to a halt. So get out, have a fun day in the countryside, and do a bit of citizen science counting our buzzing buddies!”
Wildlife presenter and BBC Springwatch host Michaela Strachan said: “Bees are the most amazing creatures and a lot of people are totally unaware of how important they are. In the UK we are lucky enough to have around 250 different types of bee and a lot of people don’t know that. So get outside and see how many you can spot and do what you can to help these awesome little pollinators. We all need to bee friend the bee!”
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