Wild Bee Journal: Wild Bee Monthly, #1

By Damian Appleby

Do you want to help save the bees? Not just for now, but for generations to come? Learn how you can make a difference to the fate of bees without ever owning a hive. 

Are you confused about what exactly you need to do to help bees? Do you wish there was a straight forward way to help bees without the expense and time of becoming a beekeeper? Beekeeper and speaker Damian Appleby has run workshops on helping bees for several years. Let him guide you month by month on how you can help bees. 

Damian has learnt that the key to saving bees isn't in keeping them, it is about making small changes in the environment around them. These are change we can all make. And that's what he believes will save the bees. 

With all the focus on Honey Bees, it is easy to forget 90% of the worlds bees are actually wild and can be helped by anyone – no bee-suit required!

In the Wild Bee Journal you will learn:

What Bees need in July

What's happening with Bees this month

Bee recipes to help bees on a bad day

What to do in your garden

History of Bees in warfare

Plant lore in July

Finally, you no longer have to worry about conflicting opinions and solutions, Damian will help you discover how you can helps the Bees. 

Buy the Wild Bees Journal so you can start saving the Bees today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Damian Appleby
• Release date: Jul 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386367147

Book preview

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How the Wild Bee Journal helps

If you really want to help save the Bees, it’s hard to know where to start with the amount of conflicting thoughts and ideas around.

What if someone could take you by the hand and month by month help you discover what you need to do to help Bees?

There are things you can do, there are things we all can do. You don’t need Bee hives, you don’t need a lot of time, you don’t even need a garden.

Wild Bees form 90% of the bee population. If we want to save the Bees, then it is Wild Bees where we are best focusing our efforts.

What Bees need this month is different from what they needed last July. Weather changes, environment changes, the world changes.

Bees don’t respond to calendars or even seasons. They do respond to their environment, and that’s where the Journal comes into it.

The reason for the Journal is to give timely advice on how you can help Bees, based on what is happening in the world around them.

The biggest challenge facing bees today is the loss of their environment. By restoring parts of their environment in your area, you are doing the best thing possible to help save Bees.

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Times of Nectar, Honey and Pollen

bee feeding summer

The warm, gentle caress of June transforms into the intense, heat fuelled embrace that is July. The gentle breezes of June have now lost all moisture as July smothers any chance of a cooling breath.

Unseasonal rain affected many in June, bees included. It has long been known it is not cold that is the bees worst natural enemy, but damp. In many areas this will continue into July creating issues with all bees. The extremes of weather will continue these challenges throughout July, but with your help the losses can be minimised.

In the hives, already overflowing as the Queen bees goes into overdrive, laying up to 2,000 eggs per day, bees climb over bees in order to go about their daily tasks. The heavy rains have forced them to stay in the hive, increasing the feeling of claustrophobia. They want to escape, to swarm and release the pressure on their sisters, but the wet outside forces them to stay. Many hives affected by the damp