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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorway is Building a Highway for Bees
Would you tell the tiny creatures responsible for pollinating crops that provide 35 percent of the worlds food to hit the road? The answer is yes in Norway the AFP reports that Oslo is creating a bee highway to help protect the increasingly embattled pollinators.
The highway is being built as a kind of bee-friendly corridor that encourages places where bees like to both live and feed. The AFP reports that feeding stations filled with marigolds, sunflowers and other flowers beloved by bees are being planted to give the insects safe passage through the city. Using public and private resources, the highway is the first of its kind.
By building bee havens on rooftops and balconies, writes The Local, Oslo hopes to direct bee traffic from east to west, giving them nectar-rich feeding sources to help offset the stresses of urban life. The plan is being spearheaded by BiBy, an urban bee conservation group that has also set up an online map showing Oslo residents where more plants are needed.
The honey highway is being built as communities around the world are trying to figure out the best way to preserve and encourage disappearing pollinators. Its a growing crisis in the United States, too: The Wall Street Journals Tennille Tracy writes that new data shows that 40 percent of Americas honeybees died in a one-month period ending in April.
The highway is being built as a kind of bee-friendly corridor that encourages places where bees like to both live and feed. The AFP reports that feeding stations filled with marigolds, sunflowers and other flowers beloved by bees are being planted to give the insects safe passage through the city. Using public and private resources, the highway is the first of its kind.
By building bee havens on rooftops and balconies, writes The Local, Oslo hopes to direct bee traffic from east to west, giving them nectar-rich feeding sources to help offset the stresses of urban life. The plan is being spearheaded by BiBy, an urban bee conservation group that has also set up an online map showing Oslo residents where more plants are needed.
The honey highway is being built as communities around the world are trying to figure out the best way to preserve and encourage disappearing pollinators. Its a growing crisis in the United States, too: The Wall Street Journals Tennille Tracy writes that new data shows that 40 percent of Americas honeybees died in a one-month period ending in April.
Whole article at: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/norway-has-highway-bees-180955703/#BJk2IsM60c4BAtq1.99
Wanna help on a project like this? More info at: http://www.pollinator.org/
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Norway is Building a Highway for Bees (Original Post)
FSogol
Jun 2015
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lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)1. I water the bees over here.
Still apprehensive about being (beeing) stung.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)2. kick and thanks nt
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)3. Rec #5 - Off to the Greatest Pages!
Very cool news. "honey highway" Love that. LOL