A day set aside to celebrate bees.
World Bee Day raises awareness of the essential role that bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy.
Photo: Paul Harrop
Learn
Explore how bees sustain biodiversity, ecosystem health and food security.
Photo: Dianne Rigley
Get involved
Host a Great Bee Morning Tea or create a pollinator-friendly garden.
Photo: Melissa Muller
Donate
Your support funds research and education that protect bees in Australia.
Resources to help you celebrate World Bee Day
Photo: Kathie Thomas
World Bee Day
Use this pack with World Bee Day resources to help raise awareness, host an event or simply celebrate Australia’s bees.
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Great Bee Morning Tea
Host your own Great Bee Morning Tea with this hosting pack with social media assets, an invitation template and recipes.
Photo: Glenda Black
Bring your Buzz
Celebrate with this communications pack to encourage farmers’ markets to wear yellow in the lead up to World Bee Day.
Find out about the origins of World Bee Day
On 20 December 2017, following three years of effort at the international level, the UN Member States unanimously approved a proposal by Slovenia to proclaim 20 May as World Bee Day.