Special glucose paper could help protect and energise bee population
This amazing paper acts as an ‘energy drink’ for bees without becoming sticky.
An innovative product, Bee Saving Paper, has launched to help protect and energise declining bee populations.
Bee Saving Paper is a biodegradable material that works like an energy drink for bees to help them fly further and reduce exhaustion.
The paper contains a form of energy-rich glucose that does not make it sticky. Just 0.5kg of the paper is enough to feed several thousand bees.
Bee Saving Paper is covered with water-based UV paint with a circle pattern visible only to bees that attracts them as a meadow would.
Tomasz Bujok and Anna Gadecka, senior creatives on the project, said: “We’ve managed to develop and produce what is probably the first paper nature would not only like you to use, but maybe even to drop.
“Currently, we are focusing on seeking partners who, just like us, care about the future of bees. We know our innovation won’t solve the worldwide problem of the declining bee population by itself, but we hope we’ll at least make people realise how important bees are to us.”
Bee Saving Paper has already passed a successful field test for a bee keeper who lost over 95% of his hives.
Bees and other pollinating insects are thought to be responsible for keeping 90% of all wild plants in existence, however bee numbers worldwide are declining due to urban development.
