"Dead bees are being carried out by the bucketful." Mass bee deaths have been recorded again in Tatarstan.
Bees in the village BakchasaraiBees began dying in a bee colony 250 km from Kazan on Monday, July 15. According to the public organization "Beekeepers of Tatarstan," seven apiaries were damaged, and approximately 300 hives were lost.
“Now we are talking only about those beekeepers who have submitted applications,” a representative of the organization emphasized in a conversation with NeMoskva Lyalya Shakirova. - The number of dead hives could be even higher.
Bees fly up to 7 km for pollen. The only flowering field within this radius belongs to the Ilnur farmstead, where they grow rapeseed.
— Farmers have already confirmed that they treated it with a class I pesticide on Sunday evening, — says Shakirova. — The villagers claim that this was done before sunset, when the bees were still flying.
Immediately after the bees began dying, a representative of the peasant farm offered the apiary owners a settlement and agreed on compensation for damages. But within 24 hours, so many hives had died that he was forced to retract his promises—until he consulted with his superiors.
— Beekeepers were asked to keep quiet for now, — says Lyalya Shakirova.
She personally went to the site of the poisoning and collected samples together with a special commission.
“This is the first time I’ve seen such a case,” Shakirova admits. — Dead bees are taken out in buckets.
According to her, all the affected beekeepers are ready to fight to the end, including going to court:
"This must be done to stop the lawlessness that's unfolding. We may lose this case, but we can't remain silent. The courts discipline farmers and force them to behave more carefully."
According to the Beekeepers of Tatarstan, this is not the first major poisoning this season: about 200 hives died recently in Almetyevsk, but there the agricultural holding gave a receipt that it would pay the affected beekeepers a million rubles from the profits.
NeMoskva reported on how beekeepers from Tatarstan managed to break the system, and why the death of bees affects each of us. here.
