ADOPT A CORNISH BEE HIVE FOR 12 MONTHS
Adopt a Cornish bee hive and discover the hidden and complex world of the honey bee. A perfect introduction to the bee hive and beekeeping without the sting!
Find out why bees swarm and where their honey comes from.
You'll receive a newsletter every month full of fascinating facts and photographs with updates explaining what is going on inside the adopted hive over a whole year.
An educational and ethical gift for anybody interested in bees and the natural world in Cornwall. The cost covers what is needed to care for a colony of bees for a year so your money goes directly to help save the bees.
The bee has been around for about 80 million years evolving alongside flowering plants and a special relationship has developed between them. The flowers provide nectar for the bee and the bee transports pollen from one flower to another and so pollinates them. When one bee has found the nectar source she communicates its location to others in the hive using a complicated dance language unique to the honeybee.
About one third of our total diet comes directly or indirectly from bee pollinated plants such as fruit, vegetables and seed crops. Considering also the wildflowers, trees and non-food crops that are bee pollinated, it can be seen that the ecological and economic importance of the bee in our environment is immense.
So help the beekeeper keep his bees and support our environment, adopt a hive in Cornwall!
We can send the Certificate and Newsletters by email to you or someone else. Please tell us.
£48.00