Insect hotel "Zollverein", Essen, Germany - Insect Hotels on Waymarking.com

As part of the joint project "Bees in the City" settled the RAG Montan Immobilien and NABU in the Ruhr area in spring 2013. more honeybee colonies on the roof of the headquarters of RAG Montan Immobilien on since producing the "real World Heritage Honey". To make a contribution to protect the solitary predator wild bees now, all participants presented the newly installed public Wild Bee Hotel.

Local wild bee species, such as the Red Mason Bee or pants bee that already occur at Zollverein, see the Insektenhotel a new home. Unlike honeybees many of them do not live "solitary", ie in a community. Approximately half of the more than 500 species of wild bees in Germany are classified as vulnerable. Since they are not careful with this lifestyle during their joint flights to the junior, protected breeding opportunities are particularly important to them. This site boasts numerous nests, the new insect hotel. The food supply at the site is large enough for all kinds because of the natural vegetation and supported by additionally planted trees and Blühwiesen and should be at a suitable point further improved.

raise awareness of the importance of wild bees

The installation of the insect hotels made in the framework of the joint project "Bees in the City", which aims to raise awareness of the importance of bees and wild bees in urban habitats. "There, where the nature has conquered the former industrial areas such as here at the Zollverein back, find also many different and sometimes rare wild bee species for a new home," said NABU state chairman Josef Tumbrinck. Could with the means of insects hotels the useful and peaceable insects additionally supported by appropriate breeding possibilities and are well observed.

The production of the insect hotels, including the formation of its present place had goal 23 adopted, a day center for people with mental illness the Essen contacts eV "For the visitors of our day care center here offered a unique opportunity to show citizenship and at a to participate important environmental project, "said Ulrike Geffert, CEO of Essen contacts.

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