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Professor Dr. Nuray Şahinler, Faculty Member of Uşak University Faculty of Agriculture, explained that climate change negatively affects beekeeping and sudden changes in air temperatures lead to losses in bee colonies.
She emphasised that the risk of death increases when bees that form winter clusters go out at high temperatures.
Professor Dr. Nuray Şahinler, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry, stated that bees that form a ‘winter cluster’ in order not to be affected by the winter cold break this order due to the increasing air temperature on some days and go out of the hive and die when the temperature drops again.
Global climate change, which negatively affects human life with effects such as water scarcity, floods or extreme temperatures, also affects the lives of other living things.
Bees, which have an important role in global food security with pollination, which is the reproduction process of plants, and their contribution to biodiversity, are among the living creatures that experience the effects of climate change.
Bees, which switch to the “winter cluster” order to warm the hive in winter months, break this order on days when the temperature is high and leave the hive, causing colony losses.
Sudden temperature changes during the day also threaten!
Dr. Şahinler highlighted that Türkiye has a say in the world in terms of colony presence and honey production and that around 115 thousand tonnes of honey is produced annually.
Underlining that Türkiye ranks in the front rows across the world in terms of colony presence, Şahinler said, “Yet, climate changes experienced worldwide also negatively affected the beekeeping sector.”
Pointing out that with the increase in the average temperature of the world, Dr. Şahinler added, “The living space of bees has risen 100 metres higher and that when the air temperature drops to 10-12 degrees, the bees gather together in the hive and switch to the order called ‘winter cluster’, consume honey and produce energy by showing minimum activity, thus keeping the temperature in the hive at 33-35 degrees Celsius.”
