Lindy Verstraten

She heard about ApisProtect and that they are looking for Ecologist and Beekeeper from one of her college supervisors. At the time she had just completed an introduction to beekeeping course and was in the middle of researching an engineering solution for the control of Varroa.

She wanted to join the ApisProtect team because the idea of monitoring bee colonies with minimal disturbances and then using this data in machine learning to predict the health of the colony in a non-invasive way is fascinating. With global food shortages expected in the near future, finding new ways and technologies to improve food supply in ethical and ecological ways is becoming more important. By improving how she monitor and manage honey bee species, which she use as an agricultural commodity, may help us improve the environment for other pollinators sharing the same habitat.

By monitoring honey bees, she have the opportunity to improve the knowledge of their behaviour and needs. If honey bees lack natural resources to meet their needs, she can expect other pollinators to be under similar stress. She now have the chance to improve this situation for pollinators and the plants they pollinate to the benefit.