by Martin Lewis | Jun 6, 2023 | World Bee Journal
Bees fly at about 15mph, so how can they find flowers when flying so quickly? It turns out that bee vision works about 5 times faster than human vision and is one of the fastest in the animal kingdom. So if a bee went to the cinema they would see the movie as a series...
by Martin Lewis | Jun 4, 2023 | World Bee Journal
Collective decisions are essential to the survival of a honeybee colony because no individual bee succeeds unless the whole colony survives and reproduces. When house hunting, worker honeybees, show us solutions to the dilemma of how to make effective decisions as a...
by Martin Lewis | Dec 5, 2021 | Projects
Our 3-year programmes enable women to restore declining bee populations while building sustainable additional livelihood options. Through hands-on training in rearing declining indigenous honeybee species, the women generate income by producing and selling honey. At...
by Martin Lewis | Jul 16, 2024 | Projects
ALLIANCE is our three-year project funded by the European Union flagship research and innovation programme, Horizon Europe. Our project consortium consists of 25 organisation leaders in food supply chains, public policy, industry-specific technological development,...
by Martin Lewis | Jun 11, 2020 | Projects
The World Bee Mark© invites honey producing smallholder beekeepers to self-certify. In parallel with our engagement at the ALLIANCE consortium, we are developing the World Bee Mark© eco-label to drive responsible production and consumption of honey through an...
