Can beekeeping improve mental wellbeing during times of crisis?
Bee World
; 99(2):40-43, 2022.
Article
in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-2017037
ABSTRACT
This paper examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected those interested in honey bees and the outdoors. It was investigated whether being outdoors and/or beekeeping has been a benefit to mental health using personal stories, examples from research, beekeeping groups, communities and the health service. The increase in online beekeeping teaching resources has helped bring knowledge about bees to perhaps a wider audience than previously, but training to become a beekeeper does need a certain hands-on element with beehives in an apiary setting. This is not just in order to gain confidence in handling bees, but also to learn from other beekeepers, and to bond in a social context. Although it is clear from the personal contributions to this article that beekeeping has helped immensely during the time of the COVID-19 crisis, more scientific research is needed to quantify the actual wellbeing effects. However, watching bees feeding on the flowers in gardens and parks is without doubt a pleasurable activity, and can be done by everyone.
Apiculture [LL010]; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology [UU485]; Behaviour (Wild Animals) [YY500]; honey bees; social insects; beekeeping; coronavirus disease 2019; pandemics; social behaviour; man; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Apidae; Apis; insects; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirinae; Coronaviridae; Nidovirales; positive-sense ssRNA Viruses; ssRNA Viruses; RNA Viruses; viruses; Hymenoptera; Hexapoda; arthropods; invertebrates; honeybees; apiculture; SARS-CoV-2; social behavior; behavior
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Bee World
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2022
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