ActSmall · Bees

The library

A small, slowly-growing collection of source-cited primers and printable project cards about wild bees, managed honeybees, and what “bee decline” actually measures. Plain English. Free to copy, translate, and republish.

Every external source on every page is HEAD-probed once a day by our curator Lambda. Broken links are repaired or dropped automatically.

Primers

Read-through pieces. Each one is roughly 800–1,500 words, source-cited, focused on a single confusion or concept that comes up everywhere in pollinator coverage.

  • Wild bees vs. honeybees

    The single most-confused thing in pollinator coverage. Read this first. Why managed honeybees being globally up does not mean wild bees are fine, and why protecting one does not automatically protect the other. Foundational.

  • What “bee decline” actually measures

    Annual managed-colony loss surveys, IUCN Red List species assessments, and decadal range contraction are three different signals. Popular coverage routinely mashes them together. Here is how to keep them straight.

  • What this site does not claim about bees, and why

    "Honey-bees are dying out", CCD as the live story, neonicotinoids as a global verdict, broader honey health claims, EMF / 5G effects on bee navigation, "stop spraying = save the bees" as the single best action, and "killer bee" panic stories are not the map's framings. Here is what FAOSTAT, EFSA, EPA, ICNIRP, and the IUCN Bumblebee Specialist Group actually publish.

Project cards

Single-page guides. Things a 14-year-old can do this Saturday with no special equipment, that produce a real data point.

  • Plant a square metre of native forage

    The smallest credible pro-pollinator action. One square metre of regionally-appropriate native flowering plants, sourced from a list specific to your ecoregion, planted in soil you control. Printable.

How to use this library

Everything here is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. You may copy, translate, adapt, and republish any of it — please keep the source citations intact, and please publish your derivative work under the same licence so the next person can keep building.

If you are a teacher, an after-school program, a scout troop, a community group, a parent, a librarian, or a person who works with kids: please take what is useful and pass it on. None of it is locked.

If you find an error, an out-of-date source, or a claim that overstates the underlying evidence: how to flag it.