Prof. Dr. Dirk de Graaf from UGent will give a lecture on Monday, October 12 at 2 PM at the…

Prof. Dr. Dirk de Graaf from UGent will give a lecture on Monday, October 12 at 2 PM at the CasinoKoksijde cultural center about the vulnerability of honey bees. This lecture opens the series ‘Bees: necessity and threat’, organized by UGent and the municipality of Koksijde. The other two lectures will follow on October 19 and 26. De Graaf critically examines bee mortality and presents innovations to counter it.

After the war, beekeeping shifted from basket hives to box hives and intensified to produce more honey. This development weakened the resilience of the colony.