Natural food for bees created

Natural food for bees created

 

Four business engineering students and one engineering administration student from Higher Technological Institute of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in Quintana Roo discovered that the delay in bees’ reproduction and the fact that many bees are dying is basically due to the food they are consuming is composed of artificial waxes made from chemical products, which negatively affects the bees and honey production.
The students were given the task of finding a solution to this problem in order to help the beekeepers to improve their apiaries.
Their solution is to design natural sheets made from operculum wax, sweet potato, pitahaya stems and honey. The product is in the process of being patented. The students added that they will seek low cost production and hope that one day their product will replace conventional bee food.