Our ECO team travelled to Omagh South West College today for a Biodiversity and Pollinator Workshop.
These workshops aim to teach pupils about the importance of pollinators and how we can help protect and enhance their habitat.
We need pollinators to grow many of the fruits and vegetables that make up a balanced diet, as well as the beautiful wildflowers and garden plants that provide us with colour and beauty in our landscape. Most pollination here is carried out by bees. We have 98 different types of bee: the honeybee, 20 different bumblebees and 77 different solitary bees.
In providing us with the service of pollination, these bees are helped by other insects like hoverflies, butterflies and moths.
Unfortunately, pollinators are in trouble. We know that one third of Irish bee species are threatened with extinction! We need to do our best to help protect them!
What can you do to encourage pollinators?
Don’t Mow Let It Grow – leave the grass to grow to encourage white and red clover, cuckooflower and other wildflowers. Dandelions are also particularly important for bees.
The ECO team had a wonderful day and we all learned loads. We feel so lucky here in St. Patrick's to have our own Pollinator garden and feel safe in the knowledge that we are doing our bit to protect and enhance their habitat.
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