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120,000 kilometers for a glass of honey

2022-07-06T06:53:45.261Z


120,000 kilometers for a glass of honey Created: 06/07/2022, 08:31 By: Ulrike Osman Honey seekers up close: bee educator Bernhard Korilla also showed the participants of the bee experience day a wandering swarm of bees. © Rotary Club Schondorf – How many kilometers do bees have to fly and how many flowers do they visit to make a jar of honey? How many bee species are there in Germany, and what


120,000 kilometers for a glass of honey

Created: 06/07/2022, 08:31

By: Ulrike Osman

Honey seekers up close: bee educator Bernhard Korilla also showed the participants of the bee experience day a wandering swarm of bees.

© Rotary Club

Schondorf – How many kilometers do bees have to fly and how many flowers do they visit to make a jar of honey?

How many bee species are there in Germany, and what do the noseless insects actually smell with?

Anyone who was at the bee experience day on the primary school meadow in Schondorf on Saturday knows the answers.

With an exciting, lovingly designed program, members of the Rotary Club Ammersee-Römerstraße brought children and adults closer to the fascinating world of bees.

That's when you learned, for example, that you can make a bee hotel with very simple means - namely from tin cans and hollow plant stems.

Covered with rabbit wire, the construction becomes a nesting aid for mason bees.

At the next station, so many children were rolling seed balls made of earth, wet clay and flower seeds that the material was already running out by midday.


The fact that a swarm of bees, poured out on a stretched white cloth at an angle, quickly found its way to the beehive and the 20,000 insects then disappeared within minutes, fascinated both the adult visitors and the little ones.

"Instinctively, the bees run up to the dark opening of the beehive," explained bee educator Bernhard Korilla.

In nature, this would be a nest hole in a tree trunk.


Korilla - full-time perennial gardener and passionate beekeeper - took over the technical organization of the bee experience day.

Seven other volunteers from the Rotary Club helped with the implementation.

In accordance with the annual motto "Sustainability and environmental protection", all clubs worldwide are called upon to organize appropriate campaigns this year.


"It is important to us to draw attention to how important bees are for our ecological balance, our nature and our health," says Ingrid Britz-Averkamp, ​​who is responsible for public relations at the Rotary Club Ammersee-Römerstraße.

From the point of view of the organizers, the response on the elementary school meadow in Schondorf was extremely pleasing - already in the morning more than 100 children came with their parents.


At some stations it was not just about finding out things, but about trying them out for yourself in a very practical way - and feeling like a busy bee for a few minutes.

The laborious transport of nectar was made clear by simple but effective games.

Liquid had to be transported from one container to another with small sponges or one small wood wool ball after the other had to be brought to the collection station with the help of a Velcro strip on the trouser leg.


Most of the adult visitors should have been new to the fact that European bryony, Germander or the dioecious bryony are ideal forage plants for wild bees.

Some of the old cultivated plants have become as rare as the bryony mason bee, which feeds exclusively on this plant.


The newly acquired knowledge could be immediately put to the test in a bee quiz.

Anyone who paid close attention knew that bees have to travel 120,000 kilometers and visit a million flowers to get a jar of honey, that there are 560 species of bees in Germany - and that, lacking a nose, they smell with their antennae.

Source: merkur

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