Commercial Pollination
Tiaki Bees offers high-quality annual pollination services for farmers and orchardists in Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes district. We individually pick our strongest hives to make sure that the bees are healthy strong and ready for the important job of pollination.
Healthy bee colonies
Strong double brood hives
Reliability
Full service
Competitive pricing
A few important facts about pollination
- Honey bees collect and consume pollen as a source of protein and in doing so cross pollinate flowers.
- Honey bees are unique among insects because they have an efficient communication system to recruit forager honey bees onto particular food sources, making them highly efficient pollinators.
- Permanent hives on an orchard/farm are less efficient pollinators. The reason being that when a hive is moved to a new site bees go out and search actively for food sources and these bees do a significant amount of pollination. Permanent hives establish flight paths to other food sources, and may be slow to move onto the target crop when it begins to flower.
- The direct value of honey bees to New Zealand as a result of their pollination has been estimated to over 60 times the value of the products and services they otherwise produce.
We are happy to cater for big and small orchards alike.
Please contact Barna
barna@tiakibees.co.nz