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- Attract more insects: So that it humming and buzzing in the garden again
- Insect-friendly garden plants
- Tips & Tricks
The red sun hat attracts bees formally
Attract more insects: So that it humming and buzzing in the garden again
Whether you already have insect-friendly beds in your garden is easy to find out as follows: Just close your eyes for a moment amidst your fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, perennials and herb plantings. Listen now, there is something humming and humming beside the rustling of the leaves and the birdsong. It would be nice for nature and the bumblebees, bees and beetles anyway, which unfortunately are getting less and less year after year. Short, really only very short causal research: Due to the advancing monoculture, the habitat and the food supply of the flower visitors are getting scarcer from year to year. Nevertheless, it would be fundamentally wrong to push the farmer now generally the "buck," because this trend is not (only) the fault of agriculture, but the agricultural policy with its partially environmentally harmful subsidies.
Clear words about the mass decline of bees already existed in 2019 by beekeeper Hartmuth Herweg, owner of the Klosterhof in Graubünden in Goslar, who formulated the economic consequences as clearly as they all will be in the future if this continues (quote). "If there are no bees, then there are no more strawberries. No jam without strawberries, meaning companies like Schwartau or Zentis no longer need people for processing. In that case they will no longer need any packaging, no technology, no marketing. "
The more important are now our gardens, which are increasingly becoming a popular meeting place for bumblebee, bee and co. And what speaks against it, when we framing our garden paths and flower beds with colorful and still healthy wildflowers? Which could be that? Here is a small and by no means complete overview:
Insect-friendly garden plants
In the spring, the flowering fruit trees in the gardens and the pussy willow are especially bee-friendly. A few weeks later, they finally fly on thyme and lavender. With the nectar of phlox and summer lilac, the butterflies and hoverflies are spoiled with fondness. On the other hand, bumblebees are especially prone to lupins, thimble and poppies. And if you want them all in your garden, just plant a few globe thistles and blue stools between the garden beds.
Tips & Tricks
Incidentally, the most common flower visitors in our Central European latitudes, in addition to honeybees and butterflies, are:
They do not sting everyone.