7 Sep 2018

Secret life of bees on show in Bee Awareness Month

From Afternoons, 1:36 pm on 7 September 2018

Did you know that beehives grow in population by 1,000 percent from winter to summer?

Or that a single beehive can contain dozens of different types of honey, depending on which plants the bees have been visiting?

It's Bee Aware Month, and the treasurer of the Auckland Beekeepers' Club, Steve Leslie, is pumped!

He joins us to explain why bees are SO important to the natural world, and he's also got some tips on how you can help them thrive.

Find out more about Bee Aware month here.

Bee happy

Bee happy Photo: (Boris Smokrovic via unsplash)