#savethebees

Beautiful tree in my mum's garden, if you put sound on you can hear all the bees buzzing about, pollinating #garden #blossom #photography #savethebees

@thebeeguy I've rescued quite a few bee friends. But thank you for all the information!
#BeeHuggah #SaveTheBees #BeeKind #Bees

Great news for our pollinators! The UK government has announced plans to reduce pesticide use on arable farms by 10% by 2030 to protect bees and other pollinators. This initiative includes promoting integrated pest management and introducing a pesticide load indicator to monitor progress. While campaigners welcome this move, they urge for similar actions in urban areas and parks.

@goodnews

#GoodNews #SaveTheBees #SustainableFarming #Biodiversity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/21/use-of-pesticides-on-uk-farms-to-be-cut-by-10-by-2030-to-protect-bees

Peeep!
Bee chillin' in the bamboo of the bug hotel and enjoying the sun. It has been sitting there for awhile and looked like it had even noticed the attention

#bee #nature #savethebees #insects #photography #garden

These soldiers are incredible.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30799765

You run out of grenades. Enemy sits safely in bunker. And what comes to your mind? A beehive. A BEEHIVE!!

#SAVETHEBEES
#SlavaUkraini
#ukraine
#ukrainewar

#savethebees #biodiversity #teamplanet

Spring is coming! Gourd with quill work honeybee on Birchbark. Carved and dyed with wood-burning. I love this one and wish I had kept it #Gourd #Art #SaveTheBees #Nature.

Another #Brexit benefit, now we're importing food that's slowly killing us & the #environment! What a legacy, #ToryKillers! #UKPolitics
#Pesticides #SaveTheBees #SaveOurFood #ClimateCrisis #SaveBritishFarming #Farming @Lizwebster @SydesJokes Enough nonsense! #RejoinEU

Imported foods found with residues of 48 pesticides not approved for #UK use!!! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/11/imported-foods-found-with-residues-of-48-pesticides-not-approved-for-uk-use?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Si quieres una de estas #pegatinas, sólo tienes que venir a las presentaciones de #UnaCosaQueVolaba que haremos @cristaljar.bsky.social y yo próximamente.

Hazte con él en: https://librosindie.net/product/una-cosa-que-volaba/

#stickers #bee #savethebees #ilustración #lij #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #MastoArt #FediGiftShop

#Bayer’s #pesticides are harming #bees

The use of #neonicotinoid pesticides, like those produced by Bayer, has helped make much of America’s landscape toxic to bees.

By Steve Blackledge
December 9, 2022

"#Pollinators are struggling — in large part because pesticides have made much of their environment toxic.

"Over the past quarter century, the increased use of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, or neonics for short, has made America’s agricultural landscape roughly 48 times more toxic for bees.

Bees and other pollinators are dying from exposure to these toxic pesticides — and we need to protect them. That’s why we’re calling on one of the country’s largest pesticide manufacturers, Bayer, to do right by our bees and stop making and selling neonics."

Read more / take action:
https://environmentamerica.org/articles/bayers-pesticides-are-harming-bees/

#Neonics #SaveTheBees

#Bee-harming #pesticides found in majority of English waterways

by Anna Lamche, 2 Dec 2024

"Pesticides that harm bees were found in the 'majority' of English waterways tested in the last year, according to data analysis by two environmental charities.

"The Rivers Trust and Wildlife and Countryside Link found neonicotinoid pesticides were present in 85% of English rivers tested by the Environment Agency between 2023 and 2024.

"The banned pesticide was signed off for emergency use by the previous government to combat a disease impacting sugar beet crops – a decision for which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) is now being investigated.

"On Monday, the government promised 'to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides that threaten bees and other vital pollinators.'"

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ew8dpw58qo

#Neonicotinoid #Pesticides #Pollinators #Extinction #Bayer #SaveTheBees

And you thought it was you?

Pollinators , especially bees are essential for life on the planet.

#nature #bees #nettles #flowers #gardens #savetheplanet #savethebutterflies #gardeningforacause #gardeninspiration #guerrillagardening #savethebees

#Endangered #bees stop #Meta’s plan for #nuclear-powered #AI #DataCenter

Meta's rivals have struck deals to use nuclear power for some data centers.

"One AI query consumes up to 10 times the energy of a standard Google search."

byHannah Murphy and Cristina Criddle, Financial Times – Nov 4, 2024

"Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data center in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter.

"#Zuckerberg had planned to strike a deal with an existing nuclear power plant operator to provide emissions-free electricity for a new data center supporting his #ArtificialIntelligence ambitions.

"However, the potential deal faced multiple complications including #environmental and regulatory challenges, these people said.

"The discovery of the rare bee species on a location next to the plant where the data center was to be built would have complicated the project, Zuckerberg told a Meta all-hands meeting last week, according to two people familiar with the meeting."

Read more:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/endangered-bees-stop-metas-plan-for-nuclear-powered-ai-data-center/

#SaveTheBees #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForAI #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #Cryptocurrency #BigData #DataCenters #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste

Nature-Friendly Farming is key to a wilder future.

I'm calling on British Sugar to help farmers go neonic-free.

Sign Wildlife Trusts' petition now - https://wtru.st/back-beet-farmers.

Beet farmers who choose methods that boost nature must be supported. https://action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/142500/petition/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=tw&en_ref=178594356

#NoMoreNeonics #NatureFriendlyFarming #WilderFuture #Petition #SaveTheBees

#SmilingHillFarm in the news -- for safely relocating #bees!

Hive with more than 40,000 bees removed from house at Smiling Hill Farm

by Russ Reed
September 19, 2024

WESTBROOK, Maine — "The family that owns Smiling Hill Farm is doing its best to protect a #BeeColony that has occupied a farmhouse for decades.

"The Knight family said a hive with more than 40,000 bees grew within the walls of a home on their property.

"The farmhouse is in need of renovation but instead of killing the bees, the Knight family wanted to save the colony.

"'For sixty-plus years, there's been bees in this house and it might be longer than that. It might be seventy or eighty,' said Michael Knight.

"On Thursday, Andrew MacDonald of Bee Huggah came to Smiling Hill Farm to safely relocate the bees from the farmhouse.

"'I believe that these bees are worth saving for a number of different reasons,' MacDonald said. 'They have medicinal value and they pollinate our crops.'

"MacDonald moved the bees to a hive outside of the farmhouse."

https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-smiling-hill-farmhouse-large-beehive-removed/62284417

#BeeHuggah #SaveTheBees #SaveSmilingHillFarm #Pollinators #Maine

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Des abeilles faisant de l'architecture anarchiste dans le sable.

Je savais pas qu'elles étaient capables de faire comme les fourmis!!

#abeilles #bees #insectes #apiculture #ecologie #biodiversity #biodiversite #biology #biologie #animals #animaux #animauxsauvages #sable #sauvage #InsectesSociaux #insects #sauvezlesabeilles #savethebees #honigbienen #bienen #honig #nature #wildlife #survie

Blauschwarze #Holzbienen (Xylocopa sp.) sind ganz schön beeindruckende Brummer mit violett schillernden Flügeln. In D eher selten kann man sie in #Slowenien häufiger antreffen.

#natur #nature #insekten #insects #Biene #Bienen #savethebees #bees #Apidae #holzbiene #SloveniaNature