Bee Roads - what are they?🐝🐝

Bee roads are defined as 'An area planted with nectar-rich flowers in order to provide a habitat for bees and other pollinating insects' 🐝🐞

As 97% of wildflower-rich land (7 million hectares!) has vanished since the 1940's - due to modern agricultural and urban development! Buglife - a conservation charity launched its B-Lines network (or Bee Roads!), in the hope that this would restore and create at least 150,000 hectares of wildflower 'pathways'! 🌸🌼🌻

B-lines are a mapped network of existing and potential wildflower habitats - criss-crossing the country. The 3km wide corridors stretch from the coast to the countryside, towns and cities - covering around 48,000 sq km of England.

Some local councils are planting verges and other areas with wildflowers to provide food and shelter. There are numerous locations that can benefit from the sowing of wildflowers from - Parks, nature reserves, cemeteries, private gardens, railway lines and even window boxes! The more we can do to help our pollinators the better for all of us! 😍

So, if you want to create your own 'pit stop' for Bees sow some wildflower seeds!🌺🌸🌼