Beekeeping today differs from fifty years ago

Beekeeping today differs from fifty years ago. Prof. Dr. Ellen Danneels from Ghent University will explain why on Monday, October 19 at 2 p.m. at the CasinoKoksijde cultural center. Her lecture, titled ‘Beekeeping in Practice: Today's Challenges,’ is the second in the series ‘Bees: Necessity and Threat,’ organized by UGent and the municipality of Koksijde.

Honey bees are finding less food, making it important for beekeepers to adjust the number of colonies to local flowering. The increasing use of pesticides also requires good agreements between beekeepers and farmers.