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BUZZ ISSUE-U:BEE ONLINE #01

In this quarterly magazine from U:Bee Online, read more about the skills that could help you achieve more, start life-long interests, lead to careers or become your new hobby!

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did you eat this week?<br />

What<br />

on your toast? Lunch -<br />

Breakfast-jam<br />

Dinner - pasta with a<br />

sandwich?<br />

sauce?<br />

tomato<br />

you needed bees to be part of all<br />

Well,<br />

this! When most people think<br />

of<br />

including most fruit and<br />

eat,<br />

vegetables.<br />

A world without our bees<br />

growing.<br />

be a very different place.<br />

would<br />

worldwide.<br />

bees<br />

is our bee population going<br />

Why<br />

down?<br />

of different things are affecting<br />

Lots<br />

things that are affecting us too.<br />

the<br />

of these are: changes in land use,<br />

Some<br />

loss, disease, pesticides,<br />

habitat<br />

practices, pollution, invasive<br />

farming<br />

plant and animal species,<br />

non-native<br />

climate change.<br />

and<br />

That all sounds bad for the bees<br />

Wow!<br />

us. What can we do?<br />

and<br />

HELPING OUR<br />

<strong>BEE</strong>S<br />

BYJADE WINTER<br />

APPLES,<br />

TOMATOES,ALMONDS,<br />

ONIONS, LEMONS,<br />

CHERRIES, CARROTS<br />

AND MANY MORE OF<br />

OUR FAVOURITE FOODS<br />

DEPEND ON <strong>BEE</strong>S TO<br />

POLLINATE THEM SO<br />

THEY CAN GROW<br />

an apple after your cheese and tomato<br />

There are 267 different species of<br />

bees in the UK but many species of<br />

about bees, they just think about the<br />

honey they produce but actually<br />

bee are declining, with two<br />

bumblebee species known to be<br />

they’re behind much of the food we<br />

extinct.<br />

Bees are crucial to our economy –the<br />

There are around 20.000 species of<br />

pollinate our crops and without them<br />

it would cost UK farmers £1.8 billion a<br />

year to use other methods of crop<br />

the bee population but they are also<br />

"BY UNDERSTANDING<br />

<strong>BEE</strong>S, WE CAN HELP<br />

THEM"<br />

Issue One:October 2018 / buzz@ubee.org.uk / www.ubee.org.uk / Page 16

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