The Beehive

Bees are pollinating insects par excellence.  This pavilion exhibits and explains life within a honeycomb.  It is easy to feel like a bee within a large hexagonal cell in which you can touch the texture of the honeycomb, smell the beeswax and the honey, hear the buzzing of a bee or decipher the meaning of its dance. In front of a real beehive with transparent walls, we can observe a colony of 20.000 bees. They come and go via a methcrylate tube with pollen, nectar, propolis and water between their legs, to thereby produce the different apicultural products: honey, beeswax, propolis or royal jelly, amongst others.

Learning the social communication they carry out using pheromones or chemical substances perceived through their sense of smell, or understanding the circular dance to indicate where the food is, are all behaviours which reveal the interesting world of bees.