wildlife in limerick needs help. can you help get the message out to people in limerick?
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Wildlife in Limerick
needs help.
Can you help get the
message out to people in
Limerick?
Clue 14: Young Munster rugby team’s colours
Photo by www.munsterrugby.ie
Clue 15:People confuse me with a wasp – but that’s NOT me!
Photo by Soebe, Wikicommons
What am I?
?
I am a BUMBLEBEE! One of 101 types of WILD BEE living in Ireland.
101 species of wild bees in Ireland
How do wild bees help feed people?
What is the magic that changes a flower to an apple?
Pollination = magic that triggers apples to grow from the apple blossom
Image: Wikicommons, Dan Parsons
53 million euro in Ireland153 billion euro in the world
Wild bees help feed wild animals
What does the fox say?
I love berries!
Thanks wild bees!
How wild bees help trees and flowers have babies!
An example from Limerick: the Great Yellow Bumblebee(Bombus distinguendus)
Last seen in Limerick about 10 years ago.
Wild bees are in trouble
Extinct from nearly all these locations.
Many species of wild bees in Ireland (42 of 101 species) have vanished from where they used to live = local extinctions.
Wild bees are in trouble.People are changing the landscape.
Problem Number 1 = not enough food- the flowers are gone
Fields don’t have flowers anymore like they used to.
Ditches, hedges, woods get chopped down
Wild bees are in troubleProblem Number 2 = not enough safe places to live
Wild bees are in troubleProblem Number 1 = not enough safe places to live
Two big gardens
A B
Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?
A B
Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?
Two farms
A B
Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?
Two meadows
A B
Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?
Two ‘waste lands’
Two roads
A B
Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?
How easy is it being a wild bee in Limerick?
Bee paradise in a park in the city of Lyons, France
Wildlife in Limerick
needs help.
Can you help get the
message out to people in
Limerick?