Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
That eternit/asbestos roof in the first picture ... no, thank you.Another article about Slovenia's beekeepers: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/business/beekeeping-compa...“If you overcrowd any space with honey bees, there is a competition for natural resources, and since bees have the largest numbers, they push out other pollinators, which actually harms biodiversity,” he said, after a recent visit to the B&B bees. “I would say that the best thing you could do for honey bees right now is not take up beekeeping.”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41271-5Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks... results show that beekeeping reduces the diversity of wild pollinators and interaction links in the pollination networks ... High-density beekeeping in natural areas appears to have lasting, more serious negative impacts on biodiversity than was previously assumed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.76795...The Diversity Decline in Wild and Managed Honey Bee Populations Urges for an Integrated Conservation ApproachUsing honey bees as an example, we argue that several management practices in beekeeping threaten genetic diversity in both wild and managed populations, and drive population decline.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708548/Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable developmentBees comprise ~ 20 000 described species across seven recognised families ... Fifty bee species are managed by people, of which around 12 are managed for crop pollination ... Wild bees contribute an average of USD$3 251 ha−1 to the production of insect-pollinated crops, similar to that provided by managed honey beeshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?The majority of reviewed studies reported negative effects of managed beeshttps://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/Ju...“Keeping honey bees to ‘save the bees’ is like raising chickens to save birds.”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01847-3Greater bee diversity is needed to maintain crop pollination over time