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> Oslo’s “bee highway” aims to give the insects a safe passage through the city, lined with relays providing food and shelter – the first such system in the wor
by PMan74 11y ago
> Oslo’s “bee highway” aims to give the insects a safe passage through the city, lined with relays providing food and shelter – the first such system in the world, according to the organisers.
This reads like the bees are going somewhere? Like they are stopping off to feed on their way somewhere?
AFAIK bees have about a 3km forage radius from their hives - when the find food they bring it back to the hive.
- warfangle 11y agoBees travel when colonies split.
- durkie 11y agoThere are also solitary bees that don't form hives and are important pollinators.
- tehchromic 11y agocan be 10m or so I've read. I think the idea here is unbroken corridors of habitat through the city and suburbs. The highway metaphor only goes so far: no one thinks insects in quite the same way as freight trucks, but insects and wildlife have thrived for millions of years in continuous habitat, which we suddenly in the last 100 years have broken into tiny little chunks with huge barriers between them: mechanical, chemical, electromagnetic, etc. The result: extinction, and we are to blame. If we are smart, we will build these corridors everywhere, and link them to large wilderness parks.