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Sustainable youth education: Bee friendly's contribution

Sustainability and nature conservation is something that concerns us all, whether young or old. In order to communicate its relevance in the long term, it makes sense to get in touch and talk to young people.

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Whitepaper: Making biodiversity measurable with the Insector

The Insector is a monitoring system that monitors the state of biodiversity and ecosystems at the
company site and processes data relevant to CSRD.

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Sustainability reporting: an onerous obligation or a promising measure?

The introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is obliging more and more companies to produce comprehensive sustainability reports.

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Insector: Bee friendlys Smart insect monitoring

The Insector is a monitoring system that tracks the abundance and diversity of insects on your site. With the help of artificial intelligence, we can provide real-time insights into the health of entire ecosystems.

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Confrontation with the cycle: Finding nature (and yourself) in the garden

In the garden, we can find nature and ourselves. There we are confronted with the constant passing and emergence of life and reminded of our own transience.

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Mental health and nature

Immerse yourself in the world of mental health and nature. Explore how experiencing nature lifts our mood and reduces stress, based on current scientific findings and historical wisdom.

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Climate change in the garden: How can kitchen gardens and natural gardens be designed for the future?

Heat, drought, heavy rain. The climate is changing and we need to adapt our gardens. We can mitigate a lot through our choice of plants, garden design and technologies.

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Working conditions in our workshops for people with disabilities

Bee friendly stands for biodiversity and social sustainability. Our claim to ourselves is to treat people and the environment with the greatest possible respect.

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Meliponula products: What is the potential of honey from stingless bees?

Honey from stingless bees is antimicrobial, antiviral and antifungal. We talk to Professor Kwapong about the potential of honey in medicine

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Refuge or death trap? Study from Canada examines bee hotels

Entomologists from Canada are currently investigating how the material, location and construction of bee hotels affect the infestation of parasites, predators and pathogens.

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How does Bee friendly want to save biodiversity?

How do we save nature? Nothing could be easier! At the “Science Slam Bioeconomy” at BUGA23, we got to the bottom of this polemical question. Below you will find a slightly modified transcript of our science slam, which reveals the scientific basis of our work.

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The IB Mannheim's ecological educational garden

Mannheim: We accompany Andreas Niemöller and talk to him about sustainability, vegetables and why you can't force nature conservation.

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Nature conservation and Meliponula bees in Ghana

Ghana: How do bees defend themselves without stingers? Why are Meliponula bees threatened with extinction? And why do Meliponula nests look so disgusting?

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Biodiversity and food security

Ecosystem services play an important role in food production. This is becoming increasingly relevant as the world's population is growing so rapidly and more and more people need to be supplied with food.

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Meliponula beekeeping in Ghana

We spend a day with Sammy from the ISBC, who shows us how to produce Meliponula honey sustainably and how this mysterious honey is used.

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Meliponula bees: Bee friendly in Ghana

Together with the International Stingless Bee Center in Ghana, Bee friendly will explore the wonderful world of Meliponula bees and report on biodiversity and beekeeping in West Africa.

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COP15: Can the nature conservation agreement save biodiversity?

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the World Conservation Conference in Montreal. Despite vague goals, inconsistencies in the coordination process and a lack of partners, this is a positive step in the right direction.

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Germany's wild bees: the blue-black wood bee

The black wood bee looks more threatening than it is - because this tame giant is a particularly peaceful wild bee! Climate change is actually a good thing for them.

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Rock garden for bees: Biodiversity instead of gravel wasteland

If you create your rock garden correctly, you will promote biodiversity in your city. In this article, we explain how to create a bee-friendly rock garden.

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Bees and sunflowers: new varieties not bee-friendly

New sunflower varieties may look beautiful, but they offer bees too little pollen. Our recommendation: only sow bee-friendly sunflower varieties.

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Bee-friendly wildflowers and seasonal plants

Whether it's sun, shade, spring, summer or fall: bees enjoy these 20 plants all year round.

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What do bees do in winter?

In winter, people hide away in their warm living rooms. But what do wild bees and honeybees actually do when it gets cold and there are no flowers in bloom?

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Nesting aid in winter: How to overwinter your bee hotel

What happens to my bee hotel in winter? Should I put it in a warm place or not?

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3 reasons why we should preserve biodiversity

Biodiversity on Earth is declining rapidly: One species dies out every hour. But why should we even care? We'll show you three reasons

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Bee friendly Top 10: The most beautiful fall flowers for bees

Many bees lack food in the fall. With these beautiful plants for your balcony and garden, you can help wild bees and bumblebees through the winter.

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Yellow-legged furrow bee: This wild bee likes it hot

The yellow-banded furrow bee is a species of wild bee that could benefit from climate change. With the Bee friendly identification aid you can easily recognize the furrow bee.

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Which wild bee is this? Identification guide and photos

This identification guide will help you keep track of the 585 species of wild bees in Germany.

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Horned mason bee: profile, fun facts and photos

If you have an insect hotel, the horned mason bee will be one of your first guests. Sometimes this wild bee can be really cheeky.

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The garden bumblebee: more efficient than the honeybee

With its long proboscis, the garden bumblebee is a true pollination champion, even more efficient than the honeybee.

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Identify wild bees: Profile and photos of the trouser bee

Even if the “pants” of the trouser bee look a bit funny, this wild bee is something very special. Unfortunately, their habitat is being decimated more and more.

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Why are biodiversity and species diversity so important?

The loss of biodiversity and species diversity is pushing humans into an existential crisis. But what happens when we reach the tipping point?

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Marigold: bee-friendly medicinal plant with many talents

Marigolds are beautiful, healthy and useful. Reason enough to cultivate them in your garden or balcony. The bee-friendly medicinal herb is a multi-talent.

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Building a bee hotel for wild bees

A bee hotel is a nesting aid for wild bees. We show you everything you need to build an insect hotel.

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Insect extinction: Who will pollinate our plants?

The decline in insects is part of the biodiversity crisis: the diversity of species on the planet is dwindling, with dramatic consequences for humans and nature.

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Create a bee-friendly wildflower meadow

In this guide, we show you how to create a bee-friendly wildflower meadow in your garden, planter, window box or balcony.

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Ten facts about wild bees

Germany's native wild bees are fascinating, but unfortunately threatened with extinction.

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Bee-friendly flower strips

Wildflower meadows and flower strips are all the rage. Are they just pretty to look at or do they have a benefit?

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The wild carrot: a bee-friendly medicinal plant

Both bees and humans love the wild carrot. How to recognize the bee-friendly wildflower that adorns many roadsides.

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Biodiversity crisis: mass extinction with consequences

The biodiversity crisis describes the mass extinction of plant and animal species, which poses an existential threat to humanity in the long term.

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Our native wild bees in Germany

There are over 585 different species of wild bees in Germany. All the facts about the appearance, species, reproduction, food, nesting and protection of wild bees.

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The common hole bee (Heriades truncorum)

What is small, industrious and constantly wiggling its butt? That's right, it's the hole bee! Find out why this wild bee is relentlessly wiggling its bottom.

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Bee-friendly wildflowers: the wild mallow

The wild mallow is a real perennial in your garden. It is beautiful to look at and wild bees will love you for it.

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Wildflower campaign against insect mortality

On May 20, Bee friendly wants to draw attention to insect mortality with a wildflower campaign.

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Bee-friendly wildflowers: the sainfoin

Wild bees, honeybees and butterflies love sainfoin. With this identification guide you can easily recognize the wildflower.

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Bees dying due to neonicotinoids?

Neonicotinoids harm wild and honey bees. But is the use of pesticides in agriculture responsible for bee mortality?

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Discover these wild bees on a spring walk

You can discover these wild bees on your spring walk. From mason bees to meadow bumblebees, this time of year has a lot to offer.

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Flowers in spring: what you can plant in the garden now

Spring awakens the desire to work in the garden. With these tips, you can get your garden in shape so that your flower bed blooms until fall.

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Rescuing tired bumblebees in distress

In spring, bumblebee queens often go beyond their limits. Find out how to recognize a bumblebee in distress and how you can help her here.

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Cooperation with Lebenshilfe Wiesloch

Bee friendly stands for diversity and sustainability. We are therefore delighted to introduce our latest cooperation partner: Lebenshilfe Wiesloch.

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Flowering calendar for bee-friendly plants in the garden and balcony

To preserve the wild bee, we can make gardens and balconies bee-friendly.

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10 tips for bee meadows in the garden and balcony

With these 10 tips and tricks for bee meadows, you can start sowing right away.

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