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Animals and plants are also suffering from the scorching heatwave. Amid the continuous heat, beekeeping farms are worried about the mass mortality of bees, while flower farms are anxious that their plants might wither and die.

Reporter Kwon Min-kyu went to the scene.

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At a beekeeping farm in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, where a heatwave warning has been issued.

Thousands of honeybees are clinging to the entrances of more than 80 beehives.

As the scorching heat turns the inside into a steam bath, they have evacuated outside the hives.

Shading screens are put up to block the sun and water is sprayed every hour, but it is far from enough to cool down the heat.

The honeycomb I am holding right now is one that normally has about 5,000 bees attached to it.

However, there are only about 1,500 bees on both sides now.

Because the weather is so hot, the bees have escaped toward the entrance or scattered in all directions.

[Jeong Byeong-woo / Beekeeper : First, hornets come. Second, toads come. They come at night and eat (the bees).]

Due to the heatwave, queen bees are also failing to properly lay and hatch eggs, raising anxieties that it could lead to mass mortality.

[Kim Seon-hee / Former Gyeonggi Branch Head, Korea Beekeeping Association : People are struggling to survive right now. How can insects, which cannot speak, survive? I feel like the temperature goes up by about 2 degrees Celsius (4°F) every year.]

Flower complexes share the exact same worries.

Succulents and cacti are suffering from the heat, and the only facilities to cool them down are ventilation fans for air circulation.

This is inside a farm spanning over 3,967 square meters (over 1,200 pyeong).

The current indoor temperature is 36.5°C (98°F), the same as a human body temperature.

Even cacti, which grow in hot weather, have ended up dying like this.

[Goo Hwa-soon / Flower Farmer : Since cacti are 90% water, they turn mushy if it's humid. A lot of them die in the summer. There's nothing we can do.]

During an already hot summer, farmers' hearts are burning up with anxiety.

(Video by Yang Ji-hoon | Video Editing by Choi Hye-ran)