Our bees...
...and the erleak point.
There is a romantic vision of bees and romances are not easily explained, you have to feel them. Our idyll is manifested through the point, the image that we register when a bee flutters in the sky. The erleak point is present in everything we do: in our logo, in our packaging and On our website; because at erleak, " bees " in Basque, we want to make their sometimes invisible work visible.
Our bees and pollination
They play a fundamental role
Bees do something essential for plant diversity and ecosystem maintenance: pollination. About 75% of the planet's crops depend, at least in part, on pollination and bees top the list of pollinating agents. As ambassadors of this function, the quality and quantity of fruits, vegetables, and nuts would be diminished without them. Thus, for example, a strawberry of 37 grams would become a waste strawberry of just 9 grams.
Its population decreases
Intensive agriculture, the use of pesticides and pollution are some of the factors that are causing its population to decline. A study by the European Commission (Epilobee) shows that one third of EU member states have an annual mortality rate in their hives of more than 10%. At erleak we work to combat this trend and to protect the contribution of bees to the conservation of the environment and the care of our food.
Did you know...
...1/3 of what we eat is pollinated by bees?
Bees pollinate a third of what we eat and play a vital role in maintaining the planet's ecosystems. Pollination by bees not only results in a greater quantity of fruits, vegetables or nuts, but also improves the quality of the products.
...the dance of the bees is a kind of GPS?
Karl von Frisch, Nobel Prize winner in medicine, deciphered one of the most beautiful characteristics of bees, their dance. With it they are able to transmit information about the location of the flowers and the distance from the hive to them.
...must travel a distance equivalent to going around the world 4 times to produce 1 kg of honey?
To produce 1 kg of honey, 1 million flowers and about 50 thousand bee flights are needed. On each flight, the bees collect 40 mg of nectar, which is equivalent to 20 mg of honey per flight.
If they have managed to captivate you, let yourself be conquered by their honey.