Title: “Bees – important pollinators and producers of bioeconomic products.
Their importance and actual problems in Germany”

Bee pollination guaranties quantity and quality

Food choice without bees

Bees in Germany
•  100 000 beekeepers, mainly hobbyists (98%)
• manage 1 Mio honeybee colonies
– no Africanized or stingless bees
– Already lost: wild living honey bee population
– Managed colonies distributed over the whole country
• few bumble bees species for pollination (glasshouse,
tunnels)
• solitary bees (two osmia species) for certain orchards
and house gardens

For the full presentation, click here for PDF, or watch the video below.

BEE WORKSHOP – German-Brazilian Bioeconomy Workshop – Green Rio, May 24, 2018  

Klaus Wallner,
University Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Apiculture Institute.