The honey contains pollen mainly from maple and plum, with some apple, willow and chestnut, and also traces of marjoram, cornflower, clover and dandelion. Tests have also shown that the honey is free from the heavy metals which can affect honeys gathered in over-fertilized agricultural areas.
The hives were mounted on the roof of the City Hall in 2019. They are now home to four families of Buckfast bees, numbering up to 100 thousand insects altogether.
According to the city authorities of this Baltic port city, the first honey harvest in June, when a total of 50 litres was collected, already indicated this would be a record year.
In June also an innovative monitoring system, developed by students and scientists from the University of Technology in Gdańsk, was mounted in the hives. The system is composed of a microphone, humidity and temperature sensors, and accelerometers, and transmits vital data to beekeepers, allowing them to check on the condition of the bees without the need to open hives.
Source: PAP, gdynia.pl