The UAB's experimental apiary celebrates 5 years with a beekeeping workshop
For five years, the UAB has had an apiary that is unique in Catalonia and allows to carry out research, training and demonstrations on beekeeping and bee biology. To celebrate this, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is hosting a day of lectures, demonstrations and activities around beekeeping on Saturday 18 May.
In May 2019 the UAB inaugurated the UABee project, an experimental apiary to demonstrate their activity (visits to get in touch with beekeeping and bee biology), teach (training courses for university students and professionals in the sector), and research on beekeeping and bee biology. It is an experimental apiary unique in Catalonia, and one of the few in Spain, with hives designed to house standard colonies and with the possibility of modifying its configuration according to the activity and size of the colony and to monitor all the activity of the hives.
On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the UABee experimental apiary, and as part of the activities planned throughout Catalonia to celebrate International Bee Day (May 20), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is organizing this Saturday 18 May at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, a day of lectures, demonstrations and activities around beekeeping.
The day is organised jointly with Unió de Pagesos, and has the support of the agricultural association of Young Farmers and Ranchers of Catalonia (JARC), Associated Beekeepers Lleidetans, Associated Ecological Beekeepers, the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Catalonia, the Association of Beekeepers of Barcelona, Associated Beekeepers Gironins, the Catalan Association of Beekeepers, Apícola Tarragonina, and the Government of Catalonia.
The activities of the day, which will be held in the conference hall of the UAB Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will include the collection of honey samples for the IV Contest of the best Catalan honeys, a conference on the history of beekeeping in Spain by Professor José María de Jaime, from the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, and a talk on the reproduction of bees by Jesús Yániz, professor of animal production and food science at the University of Zaragoza. Gerardo Caja, lecturer of the Department of Animal and Food Science at the UAB and coordinator of the UABee Group, will take stock of the project's activities over the past five years. The day will end with a visit to the UAB apiary.