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Our Alderney Bees edition features beautifully detailed artwork depicting a variety of bee species pictured within Alderney settings. A hint at the bee's habits is often given by its 'common name' and this is demonstrated well in a number of the bees featured in this issue.
We are thankful to these tiny insects; as bees pollination is vital to our food chairn, one third of the food we eat would be ot be available but for bees. The decline in bee numbers is largely due to loss of wild habitats, intensive farmiing and overuse of pesticides and herbicides. The simple truth is that bees need flowers, and there are very few flowers to be found in the farmed countryside these days.
All is not lost though, farmers can join environmental schemes and plant bee-friendly 'pollen and nectar' strips alongside hedgerows and we all have an individual role to play too - by planting the right flowers, our gardens could do a huge amount to help restore bees' lost habitats. So id we want to continue eating the same foods that we have known for generations then we need to give more thought to the role that bees play in the food chain.| Date of Issue | 26 February 2009 |
| Designer | Petula Stone |
| Printer | BDT International |
| Values | 36p, 43p, 51p, 54p, 56p, 77p |
| Process | Offset Lithography |
| Stamp Size | 30.56mm deep x 38mm wide |
| Paper | 110gsm unwatermarked PVA Adhesive |
| Sheet | 10 |
| Perforation | 13.75 |
| Cylinder | A |
