Indian honey bee
Apis cerana
Native to India, docile and highly adapted to local flora. Backbone of small-scale apiculture.
The PAQ Bees
In The Heart
Of It All.
Pollinators restoring biodiversity and food.
Species gallery
Not one bee.
A thousand nations.
The lifecycle
41 days.
A whole civilization.
Day 0–3
Egg
The queen lays each fertilized egg in a hexagonal cell.
Day 3–9
Larva
Nurse bees feed the larva royal jelly and bee bread.
Day 9–20
Pupa
The cell is capped. Inside, the body of an adult bee forms.
Day 21–41
Adult
The bee emerges — cleaner, nurse, guard, then forager.
Day 41+
Forager
She travels miles a day, pollinating our food, our forests, our future.
Hive Explorer · scroll to descend
Chapter 01
The Queen
One queen anchors every colony. She lays up to 2,000 eggs a day and secretes pheromones that hold 50,000 sisters in perfect coordination.
Hive anatomy
Inside a superorganism.
Tap a zone in the hive to reveal its role.
The pollination chain
Flower. Bee.
Field. Plate.
01
Flower
A flower opens its calyx and secretes nectar as a lure.
02
Bee
A bee brushes pollen from anthers as she drinks.
03
Crop
Cross-pollinated crops yield more fruit, more seed, more life.
04
Plate
The food we eat depends on this exchange happening — every day.
Food dependency
0 in 0
bites of food you eat exist because a pollinator moved from flower to flower.
Almonds
Coffee
Apples
Mangoes
Chillies
Cotton
Onions
Sunflower
Pumpkin
The global crisis
"Bee populations have collapsed by up to 40% in a decade. Climate stress, pesticides, habitat loss, and disease are unravelling the pollination systems every human meal depends on."
40%
Loss of managed colonies over the last decade
75%
Of global food crops depend on pollinators
1.4B
People rely on smallholder farming — and its bees
Honey ecosystem
From hive
to your table.
01
Hive
A protected, monitored colony on a farm or forest edge.
02
Extraction
Cold-spun, un-heated, un-adulterated — pure honey.
03
Bottling
Small-batch, batch-traced, quality-certified.
04
Adopter
72 bottles a year, delivered to the family that protects the queen.
Biodiversity relationships
One node touches
every other.
Now it's your turn
Adopt a queen.
Protect a colony. Support a farmer. Change a food system. Start with one hive.