Marcel Horck from Tilburg has been beekeeper for 43 years, but he has never experienced a massive bee mortality. See you Tuesday. When he went to look at a basket at the brother Mattheushof in the afternoon, he was surprised that all the bees were dead. They lay out with their tongue. The city emperor therefore suspects that the bees have come to an end by poison.
At the request of a group of local residents, Marcel placed a basket with bees behind a playground on the Mattheushof brother in Tilburg ten days ago. Last week he added a second basket. “Then the bees flew,” says the city emperor.
“Never experienced anything like this in 43 years.”
Marcel therefore looked strange when he arrived on the spot on Tuesday afternoon. To his great shock, all bees were dead in one basket. “I think there were twenty thousand,” he says. “You know something like that can happen, but I have never experienced it as a beekeeper in my 43 years. It is very annoying.”
After the establishment of the Massasterfte, the city emperor immediately investigated. “I brought a handful of bees and I went to look at them better at home. It is remarkable that they are all dead at the bottom of the basket. In addition, the bees all protrude their tongue. Normally that is a sign that they have died through poison,” says Marcel.
“Although it may also be that someone has shot wrong poison on the plants in the area, but the bee population in the other basket is still flying around and they would otherwise be at risk.”
“Research into the cause of death.”
Marcel has engaged the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). “They are investigating the cause of death this week,” he says.
According to the beekeeper, the animals were not a danger. “I never place the baskets in a place where the danger can cause. Only when people walk very close to a cupboard or if they get bored, can they stab.”
