A large number of Norwegian bees are dying of starvation due to a late spring. The consequence may be that producers will not be able to deliver enough honey.
Normally, the bees would be out in the warm weather, feasting on nutritious flowers in full bloom, but due to spring's late arrival this year the bees lack nutrition and die in their beehives, Bergens Tidende reports.
"If the cold weather continues, there will not be enough Norwegian honey," says Odd Gjermund, Chairman of Honningcentralen. He explains that as many as 15 percent of all the bees in the beehies have died from hunger.
Trond Gjessing, manager of the Norwegian Beekeepers Association confirms the situation. "It's the same all over the country," he says. "We have had a late spring, and more beehives have died out this winter than what is normal."
(NTB)
