World Bee Day 2026

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Happy World Bee Day, everybody.

[00:00:03]I'm Dr. Justin Capidana from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania.

[00:00:09]And we're here today celebrating everything bee.

[00:00:13]It's really important to love bees because 75% [music] of our crops need pollination with bees being a huge proportion of >> [music] >> what gets pollinated.

[00:00:27]If you love bees like I love bees, there are a couple things that we can do to help get these critters around our environments year-round, including planting a diversity of different flowering plants, plants that would ideally flower at different times of the year to give them food sources.

[00:00:44]We would not want to over-tidy our yards.

[00:00:47]A lot of bees like bare soil >> [music] >> or twigs and little stems to nest in.

[00:00:52]And most importantly, if you've got to use insecticides, use them sparingly and minimally. And avoid spraying when plants are flowering.

[00:01:03]That way, we don't actually poison these guys that we depend so heavily on.