Agricultural And Farming News: Bees Suffer Under Hose Pipe Ban

Despite devastating floods less than a year ago

, following a long period of dry weather the UK is currently facing a hose pipe ban and water restrictions. Various agricultural news publications carried farming news stories about how a period of drought could lead to a further decline in the bee population.

Everyone knows that bees taken pollen from flowers and plants back to their hives and produce honey. However, bees also need water and many farming news and smallholder news publications are carrying stories asking beekeepers and gardeners to provide shallow water for bees.

It was reported in one agricultural news publication that one beekeeper who kept his bees in hives on the edge of fields, was horrified to find that his bees had all died, probably through lack of water.

Various smallholder news publications suggest placing a few bowls of water with large pebbles or small rocks in them at various sites around the garden or neat to hives so that bees have access to water but will not risk drowning. Many other insects and small mammals will also benefit from being able to find clean drinking water in this way.

Importantly, as stated in a number offarming news and smallholder news publications, it is vital to provide water for bees if you live in an area facing hose pipe restrictions, as bees would normally take water from the plant leaves, after you had sprayed your garden, but are now unable to do so.

Reading farming and smallholder news reports, it is interesting to learn that bees also use water to cool the hive as well as for diluting the honey to feed their young. One smallholder news magazine said that once bees have found a water source they tend to go back there and not go anywhere else. Bees cool the hive by spreading water droplets throughout the colony and then use their wings to fan the air and cause evaporation of the water and thus effectively lower the temperature in the hive. According to one farming news story bees use around five gallons of water each year to hydrate and cool a colony.

by: Andrey

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