The Hops and The Bees

Yesterday, there was a real buzz on the farm when members of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust visited us.

We have spent over ten years working on restoring some of our wildflower meadows and we are involved with a wide range of environmental practices. We are always learning and looking at ways to ensure we improve and protect habitats and the species within them, around the farm.

BeeConnected bring farmers and beekeepers together. When farmers are applying insecticides to their crop, BeeConnected will notify the neighboring beekeepers. In an effort to further educate ourselves and discover if there is any way we could do more, we reached out to them. This lead us to yesterday’s Bee Blitz with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

We head outside and our main goal was to find out; do we have any bees on the farm? What species of bee are they? What are their numbers? What can we do to protect and enhance the habitat for that particular species of bee?

Keep an eye on our social media platforms to discover more on our findings and what we will be doing to assure we protect any species of bee we may have found here at Hukins Hops…

Now, before you ‘buzz off’ (pardon the pun, but we had to get that in somewhere!), did you know….it is only the female bee that can sting!