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Nature conservation expert advises building yard employees: Be more courageous about disorder

2021-10-19T10:11:41.809Z


What can building yard employees do to improve insect protection? That was now the topic of a workshop for all ILE member communities in the Freising district.


What can building yard employees do to improve insect protection?

That was now the topic of a workshop for all ILE member communities in the Freising district.

Zolling

- The cycles of nature experience more and more disturbances, because important habitats in nature are disappearing and some species in the food chain are becoming rarer. This was exactly the topic for the building yard employees from all over the district who met at the invitation of Nina Huber and the ILE Ampertal in the Zollinger community center. There was a mixture of lectures with advice for the daily work of the community workers and the mutual exchange.


Anja Aigner from the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the District Office made it clear what value insects have for society, even if some benefits are not apparent at first glance. Animal pollination of plants has an arithmetical equivalent of 1.13 billion euros every year in Germany. As an example, she cited the ladybird, which will eat an average of 40,000 aphids in its lifetime. The various cycles of nature flow seamlessly into one another: The disappearance of insect species has far-reaching consequences because they are valuable food for other animals and, as a result, the number of birds is also reduced.

"Have more courage to mess up", was the central statement of Anja Aigner.

She made it clear that insects need certain habitats for life, reproduction and wintering.

These have to be created with native wild herbs, shrubs and trees.

But also dead wood or piles of leaves help so that insects and beetles can get through the winter.

She also said that the municipalities have enough space for such corners.

It is not about creating something laboriously, but rather leaving something more.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

That then also matched the instructions for mowing. Here, too, Anja Aigner wanted a little more disorder and small measures with big effects. So it is extremely important to mow in sections and then to leave the mown for a day or two. In this way, small insects could save themselves from mowing and then from the cut grass. In addition, you help nature if you create a certain disorder with areas of green spaces that can be left standing. As an example, she named transformer houses, where a mowed strip to the entrance is enough and insects could get valuable living space next to it. But she also had suggestions that some building yard employees gulped at first. So mowing by hand is the best practice for nature. But this variant also has advantages, such as,that you have to mow less often and thus have less effort. In addition, she recommended that the municipalities apply from October 7th to the end of November for a new funding program “100 blossoming municipalities”.

Many other areas were discussed at the workshop on municipal building yards.

Farmer Hans Krimmer from Pulling, for example, gave the municipal employees numerous valuable tips on how the sowing works best in the second part.

Source: merkur

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