Feature: Enclosures
Bees at the heart Pollinating trees, plants and crops is essential to the preservation of our environment and the food supply, making bees vital to the global ecology. In the UK in particular, the bee population has been in steady decline since the 1970s, prompting the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to launch initiatives such as the ‘Healthy Bees Plan 2030’ to save them. Measures to reverse the bee decline has also received
commercial, agricultural and public support, aiming to increase the areas insects can thrive in – even if it’s people’s home gardens, however small.
Optimal conditions To ensure the increase of the bee population requires optimal conditions within their hives, including temperature and humidity. If a honeybee hive is too cold, bees can die, potentially resulting in the loss of the entire hive should the queen succumb. Meanwhile,
Protecting the bee population with monitoring- system
enclosures
By Chris Lloyd, Managing Director, Spelsberg UK
T
he preservation of bees is vital – they are already endangered in many countries, including Britain. To aid their well-being, they need balanced
temperature and humidity within their hives, so monitoring these conditions is very important to understanding how to protect them.
One engineer with a passion for beekeeping has turned his
attention to creating an electronic sensor durable enough to survive tough winter conditions in northern Scotland. He turned to Spelsberg to provide the casings that will ensure long-term, reliable monitoring.
26 May 2023
www.electronicsworld.co.uk Spelsberg TG enclosure ensures long-term and reliable monitoring
Outdoor enclosures help protect bees with housing for hive-monitoring electronics
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