BeesMax is a not-for-profit company with the sole aim of reversing the decline of the UK honeybee population.
About our Wild Honeybee Conservation Project; www.treebeerescue.org Many of us have seen or heard about urban beehives, you may have seen photos of large beekeeping sites. But what about wild honeybees living in their natural environment? Sadly, we don’t know how many honeybee nests living in hollow trees there are in the wild across the UK, but we do know their population is dwindling. Our food supply and eco-system relies on these wild bee nests.
Our conservation project will discover and document the locations of wild honeybee nests in trees across the UK. Wild honeybees in the UK typically live within the confines of a hollow tree, encouraging only medium to small sized colonies. These only remove a proportion of the pollinator food within the 3-mile radius bees fly to collect their food. Traditional beehives are unrestricted in what they gather.