The Segantini Park in Milan, from today, it hosts well 200.000 api. A precious presence, desired by Dyson, which, with the installation of the quattro arnie – positioned ensuring the total safety of visitors -, is committed to the protection of this pollinating insect which is so important for terrestrial biodiversity. But not only.
The initiative, inaugurated on the occasion of the World Bee Day, scheduled for May 20, follows on from air quality monitoring projects conducted by the company during the pandemic. Representing a powerful bioindicator, bees are in fact able to detect the main pollutants present in the air we breathe: from heavy metals to pesticides, from airborne particulate to PM 0.1 (ultrafine respirable particulate), up to VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds). The research showed that, while the levels of PM2.51 – in the Milanese capital – fell during the months of lockdown, those of NO22 increased.
To conduct the bio-monitoring analyzes on the activity of bees, will be theCatholic University of Piacenza – scientific partner of the initiative – with the researcher in entomology Ilaria Negri which will carry out three samplings of honey and foraging bees, representative of the three production seasons of the year (May, July, September). The health and well-being of insects, on the other hand, are ensured thanks to the support of a professional organic beekeeper. The approximately 120 kilos of honey that will be produced by the bees will be donated to the Segantini Park Association.
“I’m really excited about the collaboration with Dyson – he says Marco Pellecchia, biologist and PhD in animal biology who will deal with the analyzes in the coming months – Placing an apiary in the city of Milan is above all a sign of attention for the conservation of the environment in an area, the city one, which is no longer at the antipodes with biodiversity: from an ecological point of view , in fact, the city must be considered as a peculiar habitat for plants and animals, which – more and more often and more and more numerous – find refuge there ». And he continues: “Thanks to the bees that, while flying, cover themselves with atmospheric dust – which the inhabitants of the city breathe every day – it will be possible to study the morphology and chemical composition of the particulate with which they come into contact, coming to define the sources of emission: what air do we breathe? What will be the impact of urban traffic on dust collected by bees? A long journey awaits us that will raise awareness of those particles that ‘float’ invisibly in the air of a big city ».
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