The main purpose of World Bee Day events is to spread awareness of the significance of bees and other pollinators for our survival. Simply proclaiming World Bee Day does not do much for bees and other pollinators; the main work of safeguarding their existence still needs to be undertaken. World Bee Day is an excellent opportunity to put bees at the centre of the national conversation for a day and encourage actions that create more bee-friendly landscapes.
A central feature of the World Bee Day celebration is the whacky ‘Waggle Dance’! Register for the Global Waggle Dance Challenge here.
The 2020 Global Online Waggle Dance Challenge is an attempt to achieve 20,000 waggle dance videos, from 20 countries, in 20 days, ending on the 20th May 2020.
What is a Waggle Dance?
You may have heard about how honeybees do the ‘Waggle Dance’ to communicate with their hive. The scouts forage over a radius of 5km to find pollen. They share the location to their fellow bees with an intricate waggle dance. The dance tells other bees how much food there is and how far away it is.
Please pass on information about this event– even to those overseas whom you can’t visit at the present time! This is a global event.