Illustrative image of Klagenfurt, Austria. A former Austrian police officer is not just managing dozens of hives but also engages in queen bee breeding just a few years after retiring from his day job. (NewsX/Bee)
Gerhad Kottek speaks in undated footage. He is an apiarist from Tannheim, Baden-Wrttemberg State - and one of the initiators of the Varroa Resistance Project 2033. (NewsX/Bee)
Picture shows what appear to be Spanish bees (Apis mellifera iberiensis), undated. The Ministry for Agriculture and Nutrition announced it would inject EUR 250,000 (GBP 219,000) into a new queen-breeding initiative on the Balearic Islands in support of the Spanish bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis). (NewsX/Bee)