Bee a Hero

Red-tailed bumblebee ©Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography

Bee a Hero - Be the Difference

Our beautiful bumblebees need your help!

Over 1/3 of bumblebee species have declined by 70%, 2 UK species have become extinct within the last 80 years and 7 are now UK Biodiversity Action Plan species due to the fact that they need saving. One of the main reasons for this decline is the loss of the flower rich habitats that are needed to sustain healthy populations.

But would it really matter to us if bumblebees went extinct? Imagine a world with no tomatoes, strawberries or potatoes- no pizza sauce, no strawberry yoghurt, no jacket potatoes or chips! Bumblebees are crucial not only to wild flowers, but also to the growth of many important food crops. So, not only do the bees need the flowers, but the flowers need the bees.

How exactly do bumblebees help flowers and other plants to grow? It’s called pollination and you can learn more about it, along with many other fascinating bee facts in our Bee a Hero films below!:

Inspired to learn even more?

Download our fantastic Bee a Hero booklet full of fun activities and top tips to help you to Bee a Hero.

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The Bee a Hero Project:

All of the films and resources on this page were created by the Carsington Junior Rangers. Motivated to help bumblebees after working with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, this inspiring group of 11 to 16 year olds not only created the activity booklet and wrote the film scripts, they also created the backgrounds and puppets for the films, recorded the sound track and composed the music for them.

The Junior Rangers have been running stalls at events to show people how to make seed bombs and have created 25 ‘Go Potty’ packs of compost and flower seeds to send into schools, enabling 3,750 children to take action to help bumblebees.

The project was made possible thanks to funding from The Green Influencers Scheme, a project match-funded through the #iwill Fund (The National Lottery Community Fund and Department of Culture, Media & Sport) and the Ernest Cook Trust. If you would like to learn more about Green Influencers or how you can pledge to help our bumblebees through actions such as Go Potty or Grow don’t Mow, click on the links below: