Norway creates first "bee highway"
Norway made news about their goal of creating a bee highway. Their plan is that all types of bees and butterflies would benefit from this, and many of the bees are considered endangered. So along the "bee highway", one will find pollen plants, nectar plants, some plants that do both, shelter for bees looking for a new home, etc. It is looked at as a radical concept that is modeled after the US Butterfly Program. This is designed to help protect and multiply the Monarch Butterfly as it makes the yearly journey to Mexico from the US.
La Gonave is secretly doing a similar project, yet on a much smaller scale. Our highway would first go from the oceanfront through the city of Anse-a-Galets, and then out to the hillside. Along the way, would be pollen plants, high nectar producing plants, water, and shelter. Our goal is to make the life of the honeybee less stressful. By creating our own version of a highway, we can ensure that beekeepers can rest assured that their honeybees will be visiting plants that are organic.
Like Oslo's program, the La Gonave program will have software that will map various locations that have pollen, nectar, and a mix of plants. Also it will show water sources, and hive locations. There will even be shelters that are built to capture swarms.
The benefits of such a highway is that farmers near the highway will have thousands of pollen workers known as the honeybee.
More can be found on this site which is a map of where hives, pollen and nectar producing plants.
Map
Article on bee highway
Go Gonave!
La Gonave is secretly doing a similar project, yet on a much smaller scale. Our highway would first go from the oceanfront through the city of Anse-a-Galets, and then out to the hillside. Along the way, would be pollen plants, high nectar producing plants, water, and shelter. Our goal is to make the life of the honeybee less stressful. By creating our own version of a highway, we can ensure that beekeepers can rest assured that their honeybees will be visiting plants that are organic.
Like Oslo's program, the La Gonave program will have software that will map various locations that have pollen, nectar, and a mix of plants. Also it will show water sources, and hive locations. There will even be shelters that are built to capture swarms.
The benefits of such a highway is that farmers near the highway will have thousands of pollen workers known as the honeybee.
More can be found on this site which is a map of where hives, pollen and nectar producing plants.
Map
Article on bee highway
Go Gonave!
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