Submitted by Saba Iakobidze, Regional Ambassador in Georgia of the 22nd Eco-generation Program

Tbilisi, Georgia

Honey bees are one of the most crucial members of the ecosystem, they transport seeds of plants to soil, so they are one of the ways in which flora procrastinates, their extinction may make the process of climate change faster as the procrastination of flora will be interrupted and thus that will make global temperature higher, It is so amazing that these little pieces of wildlife are so crucial to the nature that if their extinction were to take place it would make a huge impact on climate of the Earth and wellbeing of other species.

There is Caucasian honey bee which is scientifically called Apis mellifera caucasia, however, this bee is far more special than any other honey bees, this is caused by many factors one of them being the fact that they have the longest tongue varying from 7.2 to 7.3 mm, also bees have grey colour. Queen bees are much longer than working bees having the length of 18mm – 20 mm, the average weight of queen is 0.25 grams, 0.10 grams of a working bee and 0.20 grams of a drone. This unique specimen also is more resistant to cold winters and harsh weather conditions than any other bees, they have a more economical system of eating winter reserves they also have the ability to fly in bad weather and produce much more honey than any other honey bee in the world, they have an effective system of collecting nectar. They also have immunity to many infectious diseases and have a very active defense of the hive.[1]

These grey honey bees have gotten many awards one of them was given in 1961 at International Horticultural and Apicultural Exhibition in Erfurt, two families of bees were taken there and regardless of the fact that there were bad conditions for nectar collecting they still managed to astonish everyone and gain 97 kg of honey.[2]

Alongside the great Georgian wine, honey is the largest export of Georgia and there are plans already devised to ship and sell Georgian honey to the whole world, with its healthy traits that won’t be difficult and there already is support for this great idea, Georgia launched the co-operative program to help the country’s beekeepers, Georgian honey has been on the European market from February 2016, with the internationally recognized certificate. EU experts have said that the Georgian honey is one of the best imports that EU countries can receive alongside hazelnuts and the wine.[3]

This is another example of how crucial everything in the nature is, this lets us see that not only honey bees help plants procrastinate, but they also help our economics by adding new export to the world, so we should really think about the nature because it is the only thing that helps us gain food, our whole hierarchy is built on nature and even extinction of one species which is crucial to ecosystem may cause the whole system to fall.

Supporting photos [4] and [5]