Honeybees are the invisible hand of nature -- and we’ve been freeloading on their labor for thousands of years. According to the United Nations, bees pollinate 70% of the 100 crop species that provide 90% of the world’s food. To make that statistic painfully simple, the food on your plate likely got there thanks to a little buzz love from your friendly neighborhood pollinator.
With colony collapse disorder threatening the health and stability of the honeybee, there’s an urgent call for creative conservation solutions that support healthy habitats for the bee population.
Introducing Flight Path, a joint venture with the Port of Seattle and Common Acre, a local agriculture nonprofit. The project takes advantage of unused open space at Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport, transforming the south end into a native bee habitat. The goal is to support healthy pollinator populations and breed bees that are better at surviving the local climate. Often apiaries have had to rely on queens from California that don’t survive as well in the Pacific Northwest winters.
“TechKnow” contributor and conservation biologist Marita Davison flew into Sea-Tac airport to see how commercial aviation and bee pollinators fly side by side.
Watch the full episode this Saturday November 15 on 4:30PM PST/7:30PM EST
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