To meliorate the health of bees and pollinate insects in oecumenical and to strain towards lasting sustainable pollination of crops , the fellow worker of Van Hall Larenstein and Inholland join forces in the upcoming age in term of hardheaded research . The initiator of this labor are lector Frens Pries and associate lecturer Arjen Strijkstra .
Lecturer Frens Pries ( allow for ) and associate lecturer Arjen Strijkstra ( right )
The lectorate ‘ Bee wellness ’ at Van Hall Larenstein has been reinforced by lector Frens Pries and associate lecturer Arjen Strijkstra in the theater of operations of ‘ Biodiversity and bees ’ since January . Frens Pries has also been appointed lecturer of ‘ Sustainable craw pollenation ’ at Inholland .
Pries and Strijkstra have known each other for a while within their field and look forward to their intensive cooperation . pry : “ The cooperation between our college with their own regional stead and profile offers not bad potential and the research themes complete each other nicely . With this , we can deliver a slap-up contribution to the National Bees scheme . ”
reach for a intelligent louse landscapeAccording to Strijkstra and Pries , it is not only looking bad for ( dearest ) bees , but there is also a massive decrease of all ( pollinating ) insect . This involve a more widespread approach . By combining the lecture about ‘ Bee health ’ with the research about ‘ Sustainable pollenation of crop ’ Pries meets the research question that arose from the beekeeper . Pries : “ Professional beekeepers encounter large problem in regards to the wellness of bees , while the solid food supplies are mainly depend on the pollenation done by honey bee . The selection to employ dear bees and to take care of a good environment for pollinate insects is an essential part of the pollenation mental process . ”
Recent insect research“From Van Hall Larenstein we have been keep interfering with projects like the EU - Interreg project B - RAP from ‘ Silence of the bee ’ and , when already in close cooperation with the Inholland college , the Raak - PRO research project ‘ Sustainable control of the varroa - mite in Dutch apiculture , ” so says Strijkstra . “ Besides this , we are call for in many other projects , like KCNL - projects ‘ Together for the bees ’ and ‘ Long terminus insect monitoring ’ , and the funding of local company and social organizations through ‘ Silence of the Bees ’ Bee pact . ”
At the college of Inholland , Priest has been research viruses in bees and pesticides in beloved and wax for the last couple of years , a CoE Food project in cooperation with the Bijkers gild .
Strijkstra : “ By widening the scope of our research we can now aim towards the improvement of the landscape painting for all dirt ball , including bees and honeybees . ” pry bar strengthens this instruction with the chase : “ We are going to solve more closely together with landscape painting researchers at Inholland Delft and other colleges . ”
