Drought: “Many beekeepers have had to install drinking troughs”… bees also suffer from the lack of water

If farmers are particularly suffering this summer from the lack of water to water their animals and irrigate their crops, beekeepers are also suffering. “The heat wave dried out the blooms so much that the plants keep the little water available to survive and no longer secrete nectar,” explains Paul Gazin, a beekeeper from Béziers (Hérault), who has 150 colonies. Now, a plant without nectar is a hive without honey.