[HN Gopher] Slovenia's beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
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Slovenia's beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
Author : Thevet
Score : 86 points
Date : 2023-10-02 02:50 UTC (20 hours ago)
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| nlunbeck wrote:
| > You'll go out and take care of the bees, have some bread and
| wine and cheese, and take a nap
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| I visited an apiary in Slovenia a few years back, and they were
| testing out "bee therapy". There was a room with a bed next to
| the beehive wall, and visitors could pay to take a 90 min nap
| surrounded by buzzing bees. It was thought to provide relief for
| depression. Wish I had tried it, the buzzing echoed really nicely
| when you were inside.
| klelatti wrote:
| About twenty years ago I hosted a group of business visitors from
| Slovenia in the U.K. and was surprised to receive a beehive panel
| as a 'thank you' at the end of the meeting. It was a lovely gift
| and I still have the panel.
| beardicus wrote:
| if you're into bees and visual stimulation, i collected a bunch
| of beehive art and beekeeping related art and design a few years
| back on tumblr:
|
| https://iseebees.tumblr.com
| sdfasdf321 wrote:
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| myshpa wrote:
| 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...
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| _"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/s41598-019-41271-5
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| _Honeybees 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...
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| _The Diversity Decline in Wild and Managed Honey Bee Populations
| Urges for an Integrated Conservation Approach_
|
| _Using 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/
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| _Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable development_
|
| _Bees 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 bees_
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| https://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 bees_
|
| https://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/s41559-022-01847-3
|
| _Greater bee diversity is needed to maintain crop pollination
| over time_
| kdmccormick wrote:
| Not challenging your overall point, but your nwf link
| specifically calls out the introduction of extra _non-native_
| pollinators as a problem, and explains that honeybees were
| brought over from Europe and thereforr aren 't native to North
| America. The original article is describing honeybeekeepers
| specifically in Slovenia.
| myshpa wrote:
| True ... but whether they are native or not, their effect on
| wild pollinators is the same.
| nemo wrote:
| Honeybees aren't native to Europe or the Americas, they
| originated in Asia. In any habitat at all, keeping honeybees
| is actually adding some strain to local ecosystems. Honeybees
| are voracious nectar drinkers, once they're hit a habitat it
| can support fewer native bees, moths, butterflies, beetles,
| etc.
| Swizec wrote:
| Were bees introduced into Europe from Asia? We have
| evidence of domesticated bees in Egypt circa 2600BC.
|
| Not to mention rock art of honey collection from bees
| dating back to 7000BC in Spain.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee#Domestica
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