(ORDO NEWS) — Isolated on an island in the South East Pacific, Easter Island’s bees are free from all pathogens and pesticides that devastate the world‘s bee population, and therefore produce the purest honey on the planet.
Chile’s Easter Island beekeepers are fully convinced that their bees could one day be the lifesaver of the world’s most important polisher.
As bee colonies around the world grapple with major threats such as pesticide poisoning, new diseases and climate change, Easter Island’s bees are probably the only ones in the world that haven’t faced similar challenges yet.
Local beekeepers hope to keep it that way and have managed to convince the local government to ban bee imports due to the significant risk of infection.
“Here farmers hardly use pesticides, they use traditional growing methods,” said beekeeper Rodrigo Labras.
“The water is also completely natural, harvested from rainwater.
They have clean water sources all over the island. But the main thing is that unlike the rest of the bees in the world, they are not associated with any type of disease.
And so we don’t have to apply any chemical product to the hive or the bees.”
Interestingly, tests have shown that Easter Island bees lack a blood relation to the rest of the world’s bees, further suggesting that the Easter Island bees are indeed different and could one day be the savior of the species.
Easter Island’s bees are not only the healthiest in the world, but also the most productive.
Due to the pleasant climate of the island (spring weather almost all year round), the bees remain active throughout the year, along with the flowering of plants.
Colonies on the island produce between 90 and 120 kilograms of honey per year, compared to the 20 kilograms produced by similarly sized bee hives anywhere else.
Due to the absence of bee diseases on Easter Island, beekeepers do not need any antibiotics, there is no risk of pesticide contamination, so the honey produced here is considered the purest in the world.
Rapa Nui honey, as the nectar is sometimes called, also has a thinner consistency than regular honey due to the island’s high humidity, which prevents crystallization.
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