YOU JUST LANDED ON THE HOME PAGE OF THE FIRST AND ONLY TRUE NATIVE WILD BEE SANCTUARY ON THE PLANET AND WE'RE BUZZIN' YOU'RE HERE...

BECAUSE YOU'VE COME INTO OUR DIGITAL NEST WE RECKON YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT BEES ARE IN TROUBLE AND YOU'RE HERE TO HELP SAVE THEM...YOU JUST NEED GUIDANCE TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS TO SAVE THEM...

I'm The Bee Guy - founder of this unique planet positive project - nice to meet you!

And I'm happy to be your guide to make sure what you do really helps endangered native wild bees.

We need to act fast, smart, bravely and with purpose...so let's do this!

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First Thing You Need To Know:

NOT ALL BEES ARE HONEY BEES!

There are about 20,000 species of bee worldwide and only a handful of these are honey bees.

90% of bee species are Solitary Bees (such as the little cutie at the top of this page).

The remainder of bee species are Bumblebees (which you'll see all over this site cause we love 'em!).

So...MOST BEES WORLWIDE ARE NOT HONEY BEES.

REMEMBER THAT!

MORE INFO ON THE DIFFERENT BEE SPECIES...

Second thing you need to know:

KEEPING HIVES OF HONEY BEES DOES NOTHING TO HELP ENDANGERED NATIVE WILD BEES!

Honeybees are not endangered. They do not need saving. They are for the most part a farmed species.

Keeping Honeybees is now recognised as part of the problem - not the solution.

Honeybees compete with Endangered Native Wild Bees for ever scarcer food resources.

One honeybee hive can house as many as 60,000 bees during the summer.

If only 1/3rd of the bees in a hive are out foraging, making up to 1000 flower visits in a day, that adds up to 20,000,000 (20 million!) flower visits every day - FROM JUST ONE HIVE!

So...IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP SAVE ENDANGERED NATIVE WILD BEES - DON'T KEEP HIVES KEEP FLOWERS. NATIVE WILD FLOWERS.

MORE INFO ON THE GREAT HONEY BEE SWINDLE...

Third thing you need to know? Nope...instead a little bit about us as it's probably important too!

WE'RE THE FIRST AND ONLY TRUE NATIVE WILD BEE SANCTUARY ON THE PLANET. 55ACRES (THE SIZE OF 31 FOOTBALL PITCHES) OF PURENESS DEDICATED TO SAVING NATIVE WILD BEES AND NATURE. WE'RE THE ONLY CERTIFIED VEGAN ORGANIC LAND IN IRELAND. WE'RE UNIQUE, DISRUPTIVE, IRRESISTIBLE AND EFFECTIVE. WE CARE SO WE DARE...AND NOBODY DOES IT BETTER!

Back in 2017 I had a 'eureka moment' whilst sitting in a field full of clover and bumblebees on our family farm.

Over the next few months I morphed from quiet-spoken novice vegan-organic farmer to the force for nature that is now my alter ego - The Bee Guy.

So what is The Bee Guy? Well if Willy Wonka, Dara O'Briain and Bob Geldof got together and had a baby and that baby ended up owning a farm...the result would be The Bee Guy.

And The Bee Guy (me) spends all his time, aided and abetted by his wife and family, doing what you'd imagine The Bee Guy would do...advocating for native wild bees. Working to get the planet to love bees and save them.

Because, unfortunately bees do need saving!

GET TO KNOW US BETTER...

The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland - saving bees like no one else

Native wild bees - bumblebees and solitary bees - are in trouble worldwide.

We need to address this serious issue immediately. This isn't about honey bees and hives - they're fine. It's about education, realisation and action. It's about being brave enough to tell it like it really is. It's about honest effective engaging engagement. It's about countering the incorrect messaging and presumptions. It's about not compromising with easy-option, ineffective solutions.

This is about clean habitat.

This is about flowers.

This is about people.

We're the bee people - nice to meet you!

Join us and become bee people too.

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