1. Wildlife in Limerick needs help. Can you help get the message out to people in Limerick?

2. Clue 14: Young Munster rugby team’s colours Photo by www.munsterrugby.iewww.munsterrugby.ie

3. Clue 15:People confuse me with a wasp – but that’s NOT me! Photo by Soebe, Wikicommons

4. What am I? ?

6. 101 species of wild bees in Ireland

8. How do wild bees help feed people? What is the magic that changes a flower to an apple?

9. Pollination = magic that triggers apples to grow from the apple blossom Image: Wikicommons, Dan Parsons

10. Wild bees help feed wild animals

11. What does the fox say? I love berries! Thanks wild bees!

12. How wild bees help trees and flowers have babies!

13. An example from Limerick: the Great Yellow Bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus) Last seen in Limerick about 10 years ago. Wild bees are in trouble Extinct from nearly all these locations. Many species of wild bees in Ireland (42 of 101 species) have vanished from where they used to live = local extinctions.

14. Wild bees are in trouble. People are changing the landscape. Problem Number 1 = not enough food- the flowers are gone Fields don’t have flowers anymore like they used to. Ditches, hedges, woods get chopped down

15. Wild bees are in trouble Problem Number 2 = not enough safe places to live

16. Wild bees are in trouble Problem Number 1 = not enough safe places to live

17. Two big gardens AB Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?

18. AB Two farms

19. AB Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B? Two meadows

20. AB Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B? Two ‘waste lands’

21. Two roads AB Where would you prefer to live if you were a wild bee? A or B?

22. How easy is it being a wild bee in Limerick?

23. Bee paradise in a park in the city of Lyons, France

24. Wildlife in Limerick needs help. Can you help get the message out to people in Limerick?