Using bee stings to treat certain illnesses such as fibromyalgia, backache and arthrosis, or even ulcers. It’s called apitherapy and Sergio Gerrero began to apply it in Granada after working as a beekeeper for several years. He founded ‘La Colemna sanadora’ (‘The Healing Hive’), and his idea is spreading all over Andalusia, becoming a national […]
Climate change, the action of man, viruses, mites and the most dangerous of all, a parasite called varroa, are causing the extinction of bees. To give a solution to this problem, researchers of the Apiculture Unit at the ceiA3 Agro-Food International Excellence Campus have developed a new electronic system based in sensors that permits monitoring temperature […]
Artificial insemination of queen bees might be the solution to the alarming decline in the population of these insects. In Spain, over the last four years, the number of bees has decreased between a 30 and 40%; the main cause is the use of pesticides in agriculture.
The situation of bees is critical, contamination and the use of pesticides is reducing its population so much that the whole world is alerted by this situation. To change this, the Apoidea Company has started a project that intends to reintroduce bees in the urban environment using pollinating stations.
