Students carefully watched as trainer Tsai Ming- ying wafted fumes over a hive box while observing mulberry trees at a bee farm in Taipei’s suburbs as they learned how to maintain the insects content in an industrial setting.
As Tsai demonstrated how ants can be kept quiet with a cigarette, his visitors included entrepreneurs, retirees, and even a six-year-old who reached eagerly for a body pulled from the field.
The 43-year-old teacher who also serves as the president of Taiwan’s Bee and Wasp Conservation Association said,” Some join my group out of curiosity.”
They want to learn more about this insect, which plays a significant role in agribusiness and has important monetary values.
Due to climate change, overuse of pesticides, aggressive lice, and extreme temperatures are causing be populations all over the world to suffer.
That even spells crisis for humans, as three- quarters of the world’s major crops depend on bees to act as essential pollinators.
Honey production in Taiwan has recently been impacted by temperatures and weather variations. From 2020 to 2021, it jumped roughly 60 per cent to 13, 260 kilograms, before dropping to 9, 332 kilograms the next year.
Over the past ten years, Taiwanese residents have managed to maintain up to 60 swarm boxes in their feet or top gardens, according to Tsai.
” The area is overdeveloped with less efficient space and declining biodiversity”, he told AFP.
We hope that this thing may provide information about the environment and character.