KTH's beehives

KTH has had beehives on KTH Campus since 2016. There are currently four. The bees produced 100 kg of honey in 2021. The honey is used in restaurants and cafés on campus and is available for purchase at KTH Entre.

KTH's Beehives

Result: Name contest

Name KTH's Queen Bees

We asked you to name our Queen Bees - and we got what we asked for.

We received more than 10,000 votes and the results are, not surprisingly, a sign of the times. We proudly present KTH's queen bees:

Queen Bee McBeeface and Queen Beeyoncé

The beehives are part of our work to strengthen biodiversity, ecological values and sustainability at KTH and on Campus. Honey bees contribute to pollination and produce honey.

Did you know?

Bees are essential to life and perform an outstanding job as pollinators. A third of the food we eat is pollinated by bees. In Sweden, there are about 300 species of wild bees and a large number of these species are endangered. Even honey bees are suffering from problems linked for instance to climate change and toxins.