🐝🐝*World Bee Day 2021 is on Thursday, 20 May 2021.*🐝🐝 Bee Day celebrations raise awareness about the threats to pollinators like bees by human activities. In December 2017 UN approved this day and the First World Bee Day was celebrated on Sunday, 20 May 2018. In the current year, the fourth observance of this event is taking place. The purpose of the bee day is to acknowledge the role of bees and other pollinators for the ecosystem. *Theme of World Bee Day* World Bee Day theme 2021 is *#“Bee engaged: Build Back Better for Bees”*🐝 There are almost 20,000 different species of bees in the world. Bees live in colonies. In each colony, there are three types of bees, the queen bee, the worker bee, and the drone. The worker and the queen bee both are females, but only the queen bee can reproduce. All drones are male. Worker bee’s tasks are to clean the hive, collecting pollen and nectar to feed the colony and taking care of the offspring. The drone only mates with the queen. The queen’s job is to lay eggs only. Some well-known types of bees are as under, Types of Bees 🐝🐝🐝 🐝*The Honey Bee* Honey bees are classed as ‘social’ bees, as they live in big colonies usually of around 50,000 – 60,000 workers. There are 10 types of honey bees across the world. Colony Collapse Disorder or the ‘missing bees’ phenomenon is the major problem of Honey bees. Honey bees are also a source of crop pollination and to put food on our plates in the form of honey. 🐝*The Bumble Bee* Most bumblebees keep small colonies, from 50 to 400 workers. Bumblebees are excellent pollinators of flowers. Their furry body shape reduces their efficiency of pollination a little bit, but they also have the ability of ‘buzz pollinate’. 🐝*Leaf Cutter and Mason Bees* These types of bees are buzz bees. These are also solitary bees. Usually, a single female mason bee constructs a nest alone and provides for the egg cells that become larvae. 🐝*Digger Bees and Carpenter Bees* The solitary and good pollination are the qualities of digger bees. These bees usually make their nests in the soil. Their body is hairy and can be up to 3 cm long. 🐝*Mining Bees* Andrena is the name of Mining Bee. These bees have a huge family, consisting of thousands of types of bees. These bees are solitary, and female bees usually build nests quite close to each other. Bees not only contribute to the pollination of wildflowers, but also to the pollination of agricultural crops. According to an estimate, bees and other pollinators pollinate almost 90% of flowering plants and “70% of the world’s main crops. Without bees, these numbers would fall to decline. The government of Canada shares a formula in which you can calculate the monetary benefit of bee pollination in relation to a specific crop. The contribution of honey bee pollination to agricultural production can be estimated by this formula, 🔴V x D x P Where; 🔺V= Value of crop 🔺D= Dependency of the crop on insect pollinators 🔺P= Proportion of effective pollinators of the crop that are honey bees The estimates used for D and P are 2000. Although Bees provide invaluable services as well as monetary advantages through pollination, yet they also contribute to the economy through honey. 🐝Reasons for Endangered Bees:- There are many different reasons due to which bees are endangered, including habitat loss, pesticides, and other anthropogenic causes. Declining numbers of different species of bees have been noticed around the world, which means that there is a real risk of additional species. In seven years span, the United States saw approximately 1.6 million bees die off each year. 🐝Impacts of Climate Change upon Bees:- Climate change is the root cause of many environmental issues. For example, the Gourd Bee has a decline in numbers in recent years. The gourd bee lives upon vegetables such as squash or pumpkins. However, climate change has reduced the production of these vegetables, which has an impact on the growth of gourd bees. At the moment, a lot of factors including climate change are creating danger for bee species, and scientists are under pressure to find out ways to mitigate these deleterious effects on bee populations. If emergency steps are not taken now, then additional species of bees may be on the endangered list. Team *BreathingRoots * breathingroots1@gmail.com

One of our exciting projects is the Pollinators Stop... We at BreathingRoots are proud to be a part of the *Pollinators Stop* at the famous Gadkari Chowk at Shivaji Park, Mumbai. We were approached by an NGO, We4O2, to develop a traffic island. In this endeavour, we decided that instead of just planting randomly, trees and shrubs, this patch of garden space should become a hub for pollinators like butterflies, wasps, bees and other insects that are beneficial to our environment and also act as indicators to the overall health of the surroundings. We decided to plan and execute a butterfly patch with a difference, right in the centre of a busy traffic island to show the world that man can coexist with these creatures harmoniously! The project was a records of sorts, in a way that we executed it during the heavy lockdown by taking necessary permissions from government authorities. We ensured that the whole project completed in just one week from planning start to finish, even if it meant working hard into the night to get the work done to ours and our clients satisfaction. If you are in Mumbai, do try to visit this place and tell us which butterflies and insects did you see resting there on the plants and enjoying themselves. Would love to hear from you!

New work with New Energy 🌳. Small patches, started profusely blooming now and so welcoming many pollinators !!! kirti M. Doongursee College Dadar March- April 2021 #florafauna_in #florafauna #greenpatch #mumbai #greenarchitecture #urbanforest #biodiversity #sealovers #greenheart #flowers #coloursofnature #bringingnaturetoyou #breathingroots #newworknewenergy #greenthumb

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Microgreen Seed Sowing Demo by Breathingroots