Lamborghini has celebrated the United Nation’s World Bee Day with its own population of 600,000 bees. While the need to go green in the automotive industry is of utmost importance in this day and age, they’re not the only marque to turn towards our pollinating buzzing friends for help, with Bentley launching a similar project last year.
World Bee Day is designed to spread awareness of the significance of bees and other pollinators for our survival as human beings. Lamborghini’s current population of 600,000 bees reside in close vicinity to where their fan-favorite Italian cars are made.
Back in 2016, the Italian car manufacturer launched a biomonitoring project with the installation of an apiary with eight beehives in the Lamborghini park at Sant ’Agata Bolognese. The apiary now houses 12 hives and is vital in understanding how the surroundings affect the environment by studying the behavior of bees, honey, and wax. Lamborghini conducts the study along with entomologists and apiculturists.
The assistance of the Audi Foundation’s video cameras in and outside the beehives is used to study the environmental pollutants close to the factory. It has helped in improving the environment around the factory in Sant ’Agata Bolognese.
Lamborghini already has certification proving it’s a C02 neutral company, a title they were able to maintain despite the doubling of their production facilities. However, the Italian car manufacturer doesn’t plan on stopping there. The supercar marque has further conducted a study on solitary bee colonies. Unlike social bees, solitary bees tend not to fly as far away from their hives. This study will aim to help identify environmental pollutants which are closer to the factory.
