Bee open day

Interpretation of the big deeds of the little bee in the open day

On May 29th, Peng Wenjun, director of the Institute of Bee Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said at the "Little Bees Great Achievement" Agricultural Science Open Day. This event was conducted mainly by "offline", supplemented by the "online" live broadcast of the magazine "China Bee Industry" sponsored by Honeybee.

In order to deepen the public's understanding of the role of bees in increasing agricultural production and efficiency, the Open Day specially set up a popular science lecture on "Apiculture-an important part of agricultural green development". Peng Wenjun presented the story of bees and agriculture to the public.

Peng Wenjun said that bees have five major functions: serving agriculture, serving human health, biological research value, ecological function, and helping rural revitalization. Broad-spectrum efficient pollinator insects.

The recognition of bees has been highly valued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2017, FAO decided to designate May 20 every year as World Bee Day. participate.

The open day set up wonderful and rich study tours. The public can observe the living habits of bees up close, watch bee fossils 135 million years ago, shake honey by hand, visit the Chinese Bee Museum, listen to experts explaining bee science, watch bee science videos, etc.

Among them, the transparent bee observation box and the hand-made honey are loved by the general public.

Through the transparent board, you can observe the busy and wonderful period of the bee family that was originally hidden in the dark hive: the honorable queen is laying eggs, the idle drones are stalking everywhere, and the busy worker bees are cleaning the hive and making honey. Serving the queen bee, taking care of the young bees...

Under the guidance of experts, the honey shaker allows everyone to experience cutting off the cover of the honey spleen, adding the honey spleen to the shaker to shake the honey, and finally taste the fruits of their own work, and the heart is as sweet as honey.

In addition, fun activities such as bee knowledge quiz, bee painting, honey from different nectar plants, and fine fruits and vegetables pollinated by bees and bumblebees also attracted many visitors. Learn more about the scientific research work of apiculture, increase the interest in scientific research of apiculture, and become the bees to improve the yield and quality of crops, promote the green development of agriculture, maintain the ecological balance, promote the health of the people and help the revitalization of the countryside. effect.

Peng Wenjun said that apiculture, as one of the important grasps of the "three rural" work in the new era, is an effective way to practice the "two mountains" theory, promote the development of ecological agriculture and the prosperity of the industry, and is an accelerator for a healthy China. "Four Faces", adhere to the concept of scientific development, and be problem-oriented and demand-oriented, science and technology empower the transformation and development of the bee industry, and strive to realize the pastoral-style agriculture that combines bee pollination.