20th May World Bee Day

The purpose of World Bee Day is to raise awareness of the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy. It provides an opportunity for governments, organisations, civil society and concerned citizens everywhere to promote actions that will protect and enhance pollinators and their habitats, improve their abundance and diversity, and support the sustainable development of beekeeping.

Bees play an important role in pollinating native plants in our Australian ecosystem. The vast majority of global pollinators are wild including over 20,000 species of bees. Australia is home to around 2,000 species of native bees, the majority of which are solitary bees.

This relatively new book will help you explain all this to students in your classes.

There are teacher's notes here to help too.

These two books from CSIRO publishing would also be good to have

These also come with teachers notes. See the CSIRO webpage

Your library might also have this:

Why the 20th May?

20 May is the birth date of Anton Janša (1734–1773), a Slovenian beekeeper, the pioneer of modern beekeeping and one of the greatest authorities on the subject of bees. Slovenia is a nation of beekeepers, and beekeeping there enjoys a status equal to that of other types of agricultural activity.

The library has these books that feature beekeeping and beekeepers:

If you need more bee books look at these Pinterest pages.