Lee Tulloch for Traveller shares which Australian lodges and city hotels host beehives to help maintain bee populations, including the former Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island and the significance of healthy bees as about 90 per cent of the world’s plants and 30 per cent of the crops rely on bees for cross-pollination. 

“At Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island the honey from the island’s sanctuary of disease-free Ligurian bees was so plentiful, the lodge’s spa featured a treatment where guests were dipped in warm honey and then wrapped in a sheet to allow the skin to absorb the beneficial properties of the nectar. It was soothing and sensual and also very sticky.”

Thankfully after the bushfires, the breed survived.

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