North Wales Wildlife Trust teaching school children the value of bees and insects

Teaching school children about bees and wildlife

After consulting with myself as to the best way to teach school children about solitary bees and how important they are, Iwan Edwards of the North Wales Wildlife Trust, visited a number of schools in North Wales. They now have Nurturing Nature solitary bee observation nest boxes erected in their grounds and benefitted from some useful and practical exercises regarding wildlife. In this instance, together with volunteers from a nearby works, one nest box was erected on some old wooden pallets given a lease of new life as in insect lodge!

                                                        Volunteers erecting a solitary bee nest box in school grounds 

Almost there..!

Iwan Edwards North Wales Wildlife Trust teaching school children about their new neighbours!

The bees live in a cell, collect pollen and cap it with mud. The ‘cell’  in this case  was a tree guard, the pollen was fine flour mixed with turmeric! The mud capping was …..well mud!!

Job done!