New Zealand’s leading in-school bee and hive education programme
What is Bee Awesome?
He aha te Pī Mīharo?
Bee Awesome is a social enterprise (CC 59363) passionate about bees and the environment.
We seek to teach the tamariki of Te Waipounamu about the importance of…
Biodiversity
He rerenga rauropi
Food Security
He kai whakahaumaru
Sustainability
He whakaukatanga
We’ve created fun, engaging lessons and resources to get our tamariki outside and learning first-hand why bees are so important to our ecosystems.
Latest News
Wax on, Wax off!
Of course we all know that we get honey from our bees, but what is the other most incredible resource that we can use from our hives? Wax! This natural wax is used to construct the honeycomb and is more valuable per kilo than what honey is but they just produce less...
Bee Friendly Plants – A guide for non-gardeners!
A happy worker bee collecting nectar from a Lavendar plant.As the garden starts to fall into a quiet hibernation, it is a nice time to reflect and research about what we can plant over winter to help our pollinators come spring and summer. There is so much...
Native bees – small, solitary and under threat
They’re mostly tiny, boringly black and don’t make honey or live in hives. But they have evolved to pollinate our native plants, and they’re under threat.
Interested in signing up your school to the Bee Awesome programme?
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