Bees are particularly important for our food and that is not superstition. “80 percent of our edible crops and almost 90 percent of our wild plants are pollinated by bees and other insects,” says Koos Biesmeijer, scientific director at Naturalis. You can help the busy bees this weekend by counting them.
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Do you want to get a breath of fresh air between Thursday 10 and Monday 14 April and be useful in the meantime? Then participate in the national beekeeping this week. You can just do that on your balcony, garden, the Westerpark or another green spot in Zoetermeer.
That’s how you participate
Do you have little or no understanding of bees? That is no problem, because you too can just participate in the beekeeping. Download this form and you can get started! There you enter which day you count and what bees, bumble bees and gliding you see. Because of the drawings you can easily see what kind of animal it is. After half an hour, send this form digitally and you’re done!
If you want to read more information about these buzzing pollinators, you can download this beeengids for free.