The number of commercial beehives on farms is increasing despite the looming threat over certain species of bees, the latest data from Eurostat reveals.
The new report identifies more than eight million beehives on EU farms in 2020 – an increase of more than a million compared to the previous figures.
The count only includes beehives on farms, which excludes bees reared on smallholdings or in individual apiaries. And there are some oddities: Germany, for example, does not count beehives as part of a farm, and so has a zero count in the latest available numbers.
