Thinking about climate change, we often see rather worn-out clichés in front of our eyes - drastic images of scorched deserts, dried waters, burning forests. Feeding on we imagine cataclysms caused by rapid changes in weather conditions, not realising that the effects of climate change are already being felt around us to a greater extent than we could expect. However, it is difficult to notice the problem in its spectrum without proper mindfulness and sensitivity to the micro processes taking place in the immediate environment. In the context of pollinators and their strategic importance for the ecosystem, we must be particularly sensitive even though there is currently practically no apiary in Poland that has not been hit by diseases or parasites that negatively affect the condition of bees and increase their mortality. We just have to look closer.

In this project I chose to focus on Varroa - a disease transmitted by the Varroa Destructor mites, which gives a good basis to show many different aspects around which we build joint actions to improve the fate of pollinating insects, and ultimately ourselves - being well aware of the strategic importance of bees for the ecosystem in which we are living. Until we manage to completely control the diseases of other living beings resulting from our neglect of the species - this is still an open story that can be written down for the next chapters. More dots are waiting to be discovered before we irretrievably lose connection with them, and we don’t have time to find an answer to the question: how do we shape what surrounds us in order to care for our home and our place?