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[DanBee]

FoE sent me some seeds... all 10,000 packers went within 24hours...

Phew! That's one hive of honeybees supported...

Plan Bee has given away 1.2 million packets of wildflower seeds since 2009

Now we're seeing the benefit of scale... 1.2 million one-square-metre packets is 120 hectares of wildflowers

It's a big challenge and it's why I still believe that habitat loss - principally due to changing agricultural practices - needs to be tackled if we are serious about helping bees.

To contrast with any of these seed planting initiatives, before set-aside was effectively abolished, the UK had 352,000ha in set-aside (2006-7). If only half that set-aside had been planted with pollinator-friendly wildflower mix, and assuming only a half a hive supported per hectare, that's still 88,000 extra hives of honeybees supported...