An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers, and it is working. I had never come across solar beekeeping before, but it's an awesome synergy of nature and green energy tech!
Maybe peak solarpunk: An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels.
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/ohio-solar-farm-invited-3-million-bees/30679/
7 Comments
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 15d
Well I mean bee farming with solar panels is innovative, but bee farms won't save the bees. That would be like saying that birds can't be endangered, we have lots of chickens
SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 15d
Yeah, unfortunately the best thing they could have done for native bees is plant native flowers under the panels and keep no honeybees.
tdawg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
Well the article explains they did plant native flowers. But what's wrong with honey bees?
sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 15d
European honeybees protected by human beekeepers outcompete native pollinators for the nectar and pollen that these plants grow, so that the native pollinators struggle to get enough food.
blu3b3rryblue@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 14d
Rip native bees
gnufuu@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 15d
Pique solarpunk
wezzzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 14d
Red clover my fav :))