What is Bee Rescue?
1. Why save bees in the first place?
With continued deforestation, wild bees continue to be pushed out of their natural environment and into our living spaces.
People misconceive bees as aggressive, and want to sting anything within reach. In reality, bees only sting to defend themselves, and often only as a last resort. a worker bee that stings dies shortly after!
Bees are crucial animals of any ecosystem – in fact, they're the greatest pollinators on earth. A single colony can pollinate 30,000 flowers a day. Bees help fruit 30% of what we eat: watermelons, cabbages, mangoes. Without them, our dinner plates would be less colourful and nutritious –and more expensive. Many animals such as birds also eat them for food.
2. Importance of Pollination
For a nation with almost no agricultural industry, is pollination really that important?
Definitely! Because around 70% of native flora in Southeast Asian lowland forests depend on bee pollination. The loss of bees severely impacts our biodiversity. How?
a. Pollination helps maintain genetic diversity across a plant population.
b. The loss or weakening of these plants reduces their carbon uptake, and increases soil erosion.
c. It also impacts the food supply and shelter for wild animals and insects: What happens when monkeys and wild boars get hungry? They enter spaces humans occupy!
We often read of how the extinction of certain animals has dire consequences on ecology and even human life. The loss of bees and their contribution of pollination is one such threat.
3. What We Do
Extermination jobs use harmful chemicals and kills an entire colony of bees in 2 minutes: 10,000 bees gone in a flash! This used to be the only option... up until recently. Singapore now has 3 bee relocators, and people have started realising extermination isn't the only way!
We spend much more time and effort to do the job - a proper relocation can take up to 3 hours. Through much R&D and experience, we find the queen bee, remove the whole colony alive, and relocate them to one of our three apiaries in Bukit Timah and Changi.
After the bee rescue is complete, the job is not done. Now we work hard to give them an safe new home full of floral resources, to keep them fed and staying put in these safe spaces.
Bee Rescue Pricing
What next?
If you would like us to relocate, please take a picture / video of the bees nest, showing the access as that determines our relocation price.
Then Whatsapp Clarence (96177164) by clicking the Whatsapp button.