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BEES - BEESFREE, Inc.
About BeesFree, Inc. (OTCBB:BEES)
BeesFree is a technology company with global reach, which develops and commercializes innovative solutions for the beekeepers communities on a world-wide scale. For more information please visit www.beesfree.biz.
Contact Info
2101 Vista Parkway
Suite 122
West Palm Beach, FL 33411
Phone: 561-939-4860
www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BEES/company-info
twitter.com/#!/BEESFREEInc
www.facebook.com/pages/BEESFREE-Inc/298873216836689
Mr. Mario Sforza has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of BEESFREE, Inc. since August 2011. Mr. Sforza has more than 26 years of professional executive experience in leading U.S. and European multinational information and communications technology and media corporations where he has successfully covered senior management, marketing, sales and technical roles. He has coordinated the launch and operational roll-out of several technology projects and businesses in the wireless telecom (Motorola Satcom's Iridium and Qualcomm's Globalstar), aerospace (European Space Agency), multimedia service provisioning (Liberty Global Europe) and clean tech market segments. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Cleon Solutions from February 2005 to September 2010. From October 2009 to December 2010, Mr. Sforza served as a Senior Program Manager for Igeam. From June 2010 to July 2011, Mr. Sforza served as an Executive Advisor and Consultant for ITT VIS Italia, Altran Italia, IPS and Network Corporate Advisor. He has been a Director of BEESFREE, Inc. since August 2011. Mr. Sforza holds MSc in Electronic Engineering (magna cum laude) from the University La Sapienza" in Rome, Italy. He attended post-graduate courses in business administration and marketing from the London School of Economics and at the SDA Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
BeesFree is a technology company with global reach which develops and commercialises innovative solutions for the beekeepers communities on a world-wide scale. Incorporated in 2011, BeesFree has its Headquarters in Florida, US and all our Research and Development activities are run in Laboratory Facilities located in Rome, Italy.
As from 2008, BeesFrees founders have dedicated significant efforts and resources to find an effective and economically viable solution to the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) problem, whose effects have such a dramatic impact on beekeepers businesses and families alike on a global scale. We have carried out numerous experiments, tests and surveys to identify which factors adversely affect honey bees health and to improve the overall understanding of CCD related issues. We are currently planning to roll-out further field test projects in different countries and regions.
BeesFree has developed an innovative integrated approach meant to mitigate the effects of CCD and possibly even preventing CCD to happen altogether. Our technology is meant to work and be effective at global scale as honey bees physiology and behavioural patterns are quite similar across different environmental and climatic conditions.
Providing a solution to tackle Colony Collapse Disorder
BeesFree founders have designed, tested and patented a unique and innovative integrated solution to tackle and mitigate CCD-related problems and associated collateral damages.
Our patent-pending solution integrates a simple-to-use innovative dispenser and a proprietary soluble-in-water preparation consisting of several specific agents such as:
antimicrobial agents and compounds to fight the IIV Virus and its interaction with Nosema
components to contrast neonicotinoids side effects on bees
nutrients and antioxidants
Our integrated solution has been developed in our Italian R&D Labs and later tested with success and for nearly three years in apicultural farms in Italy.
The Beespenser
Our BeesFree Dispenser (or Beespenser) will have specific geometry and colours meant to attract bees and is composed of:
a reservoir, where the proprietary chemical compound is mixed with water
an atomizer, to spray the chemical compound
a distributor, with specific geometry and colours to attract bees
a multifunctional control system, to monitor, alarm and control the Dispenser
The Beespenser is powered with DC batteries rechargeable by a small solar panel.
The Beespenser is placed amongst beehives in order to be easily accessible to bees.
Since 1984, the beekeeping industry has witnessed multiple introduction of invasive species, including the parasitic tracheal mite Acarapis woodi (identified 1984), the parasitic mite Varroa destructor (identified 1987), Africanized honey bees (1991), the small hive beetle Aethina tumida (identified 1996), the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus - IAPV (identified 2007) and the Nosema ceranae (identified 2007). For the past 20 years, parasitic mites have caused extensive damage to honey bees. These mites transmit viruses to bees and cause significant colony losses each year. Mite-related losses reached catastrophic proportions during the winters of 1995/1996 and 2000/2001 when colony deaths in northern states ranged between 50 and 100% in many beekeeping operations. Even in years when losses were not catastrophic, the annual death was considerably higher than it was prior to 1984.
Despite considerable research efforts, effective and sustainable controls have not yet been developed for these mites. Pesticide resistant mite populations and the inability to identify and disseminate stocks of tested and proven mite-resistant bees are major contributors to these losses. While most of the deaths during the winters of 2006/07 and 2007/2008 were substantially attributed to parasitic mites, about 25-30% of deceased colonies exhibited symptoms inconsistent with mites or any other known disorder. Migratory beekeepers trucking bees over great distances were especially hard hit.
This new syndrome, the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), considered itself as an aggregation of deaths from multiple causes, has caused consistent colony losses in excess of 35% annually from 2007 (in some EU countries even up to 50%). A list of possible causes for CCD includes beekeeper management practices, new pesticides, pesticide use patterns, nutritional deficits associated with extensive monocultures, climate change, exotic parasites and pathogens, diminished immunity to pathogens and interactions among two or more of these factors.
The extent of CCD-related losses is not easy to quantify but is reflected, in part, in rental fees for colonies used for pollination which have risen sharply over the past few years. In the past, beekeepers have been able to recover from large losses, albeit at considerable expense. Historically, migratory beekeepers would return to a southern wintering ground in the autumn season, and over the next few months they would divide their remaining colonies and build back numbers in time for the following spring bloom.
With CCD, beekeepers are not able to restore their numbers because colonies taken to the south continue to die off over the winter and end up as inadequate worker populations. This means that the number of colonies available for pollination the following year is often well below normal. Hopes that CCD is an ephemeral phenomenon are rapidly vanishing and research communities all over the world are actively working to try and resolve the problem for good. Commercial beekeepers wintering in southern states during the winter of 2007/08 reported extremely high losses with colonies exhibiting many of the same symptoms as seen during the 2006/2007 winter.
About BeesFree, Inc. (OTCBB:BEES)
BeesFree is a technology company with global reach, which develops and commercializes innovative solutions for the beekeepers communities on a world-wide scale. For more information please visit www.beesfree.biz.
Contact Info
2101 Vista Parkway
Suite 122
West Palm Beach, FL 33411
Phone: 561-939-4860
www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BEES/company-info
twitter.com/#!/BEESFREEInc
www.facebook.com/pages/BEESFREE-Inc/298873216836689
Mr. Mario Sforza has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of BEESFREE, Inc. since August 2011. Mr. Sforza has more than 26 years of professional executive experience in leading U.S. and European multinational information and communications technology and media corporations where he has successfully covered senior management, marketing, sales and technical roles. He has coordinated the launch and operational roll-out of several technology projects and businesses in the wireless telecom (Motorola Satcom's Iridium and Qualcomm's Globalstar), aerospace (European Space Agency), multimedia service provisioning (Liberty Global Europe) and clean tech market segments. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Cleon Solutions from February 2005 to September 2010. From October 2009 to December 2010, Mr. Sforza served as a Senior Program Manager for Igeam. From June 2010 to July 2011, Mr. Sforza served as an Executive Advisor and Consultant for ITT VIS Italia, Altran Italia, IPS and Network Corporate Advisor. He has been a Director of BEESFREE, Inc. since August 2011. Mr. Sforza holds MSc in Electronic Engineering (magna cum laude) from the University La Sapienza" in Rome, Italy. He attended post-graduate courses in business administration and marketing from the London School of Economics and at the SDA Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
BeesFree is a technology company with global reach which develops and commercialises innovative solutions for the beekeepers communities on a world-wide scale. Incorporated in 2011, BeesFree has its Headquarters in Florida, US and all our Research and Development activities are run in Laboratory Facilities located in Rome, Italy.
As from 2008, BeesFrees founders have dedicated significant efforts and resources to find an effective and economically viable solution to the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) problem, whose effects have such a dramatic impact on beekeepers businesses and families alike on a global scale. We have carried out numerous experiments, tests and surveys to identify which factors adversely affect honey bees health and to improve the overall understanding of CCD related issues. We are currently planning to roll-out further field test projects in different countries and regions.
BeesFree has developed an innovative integrated approach meant to mitigate the effects of CCD and possibly even preventing CCD to happen altogether. Our technology is meant to work and be effective at global scale as honey bees physiology and behavioural patterns are quite similar across different environmental and climatic conditions.
Providing a solution to tackle Colony Collapse Disorder
BeesFree founders have designed, tested and patented a unique and innovative integrated solution to tackle and mitigate CCD-related problems and associated collateral damages.
Our patent-pending solution integrates a simple-to-use innovative dispenser and a proprietary soluble-in-water preparation consisting of several specific agents such as:
antimicrobial agents and compounds to fight the IIV Virus and its interaction with Nosema
components to contrast neonicotinoids side effects on bees
nutrients and antioxidants
Our integrated solution has been developed in our Italian R&D Labs and later tested with success and for nearly three years in apicultural farms in Italy.
The Beespenser
Our BeesFree Dispenser (or Beespenser) will have specific geometry and colours meant to attract bees and is composed of:
a reservoir, where the proprietary chemical compound is mixed with water
an atomizer, to spray the chemical compound
a distributor, with specific geometry and colours to attract bees
a multifunctional control system, to monitor, alarm and control the Dispenser
The Beespenser is powered with DC batteries rechargeable by a small solar panel.
The Beespenser is placed amongst beehives in order to be easily accessible to bees.
Since 1984, the beekeeping industry has witnessed multiple introduction of invasive species, including the parasitic tracheal mite Acarapis woodi (identified 1984), the parasitic mite Varroa destructor (identified 1987), Africanized honey bees (1991), the small hive beetle Aethina tumida (identified 1996), the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus - IAPV (identified 2007) and the Nosema ceranae (identified 2007). For the past 20 years, parasitic mites have caused extensive damage to honey bees. These mites transmit viruses to bees and cause significant colony losses each year. Mite-related losses reached catastrophic proportions during the winters of 1995/1996 and 2000/2001 when colony deaths in northern states ranged between 50 and 100% in many beekeeping operations. Even in years when losses were not catastrophic, the annual death was considerably higher than it was prior to 1984.
Despite considerable research efforts, effective and sustainable controls have not yet been developed for these mites. Pesticide resistant mite populations and the inability to identify and disseminate stocks of tested and proven mite-resistant bees are major contributors to these losses. While most of the deaths during the winters of 2006/07 and 2007/2008 were substantially attributed to parasitic mites, about 25-30% of deceased colonies exhibited symptoms inconsistent with mites or any other known disorder. Migratory beekeepers trucking bees over great distances were especially hard hit.
This new syndrome, the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), considered itself as an aggregation of deaths from multiple causes, has caused consistent colony losses in excess of 35% annually from 2007 (in some EU countries even up to 50%). A list of possible causes for CCD includes beekeeper management practices, new pesticides, pesticide use patterns, nutritional deficits associated with extensive monocultures, climate change, exotic parasites and pathogens, diminished immunity to pathogens and interactions among two or more of these factors.
The extent of CCD-related losses is not easy to quantify but is reflected, in part, in rental fees for colonies used for pollination which have risen sharply over the past few years. In the past, beekeepers have been able to recover from large losses, albeit at considerable expense. Historically, migratory beekeepers would return to a southern wintering ground in the autumn season, and over the next few months they would divide their remaining colonies and build back numbers in time for the following spring bloom.
With CCD, beekeepers are not able to restore their numbers because colonies taken to the south continue to die off over the winter and end up as inadequate worker populations. This means that the number of colonies available for pollination the following year is often well below normal. Hopes that CCD is an ephemeral phenomenon are rapidly vanishing and research communities all over the world are actively working to try and resolve the problem for good. Commercial beekeepers wintering in southern states during the winter of 2007/08 reported extremely high losses with colonies exhibiting many of the same symptoms as seen during the 2006/2007 winter.