May 20 is World Bee Day!
The observance of World Bee Day worldwide aims to:
- Draw the attention of the world’s public and political decision-makers to the importance of protecting bees.
- Remind us that we depend on bees and other pollinators.
- Protect bees and other pollinators, which would significantly contribute to solving problems related to the global food supply and eliminate hunger in developing countries.
- Halt the further loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems, and thereby contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
A bee visiting milkweed blossoms in our yard.
Our native bee house is busy.
Bats are also great pollinators; look at those wings.
Video taken in our yard, at dusk.
There are more than 450 kinds of bees in Michigan, 3,600 types of bees in the USA, and 20,000 bee species around the world.
Be nice to bees, birds, butterflies, and bats.
