Creating a buzz! This Czech student won an award for teaching bees how to throw shade

A Czech student has picked up an award for his project, which teaching bees how to make lampshades.

Eduard Seibert used the natural abilities of bees and they only need the basic shape of a wax plate to create the designs and they continue on their own. The lampshades have proven powerful and even give off a delicate honey scent.

Seibert first studied architecture in Liberec and then continued at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, where he worked with glass. Seibert has been working on a bee project for five years.

For the Beehive project, he won the Preciosa Foundation Award and the CzechInvest Award in the competition for the Best Start-up of the Technical University of Liberec 2020.

The bees get a prepared shape from a wax plate into the hive, the parts of which are glued together with beeswax. The bees thin the partition and complete the space with a thin and translucent mass, at the same time strengthening the honeycomb. The beekeeper must then remove it from the hive in time so that the bees do not carry too much honey into it.

"We still have a lot of testing to do. It depends, for example, on the place where you hang the honeycomb in the hive. Sometimes the bees ignore it. Bees are very productive, but we try not to harden or bother them," added the artist.

According to him, the price of one light should be around 8000 crowns. The project is also to help beekeepers, who will receive almost a fifth of the price. This year, Seibert plans to produce about a hundred Beehive lampshades.