Free “dating” for bees and flowers has also started in Vienna

By: STA Date: 2024. 04. 19. 10:00

After Lower and Upper Austria, the free “dating” service for bees and flowers has also been launched in Vienna: gardeners, winegrowers and other landowners can announce where they are waiting for the bees, and beekeepers can move their beehives there for a while – the Budapest office of the City of Vienna announced on Friday with MTI.

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The free online platform Bienenwanderbörse is operated by the Vienna Chamber of Agriculture, and beekeepers and landowners can register for it, the announcement reads. As they write, on the online map, gardeners, winemakers or companies and municipalities with large green areas can specify where they expect bees, and beekeepers move their beehives there during the flowering period.

It also works the other way around: beekeepers can also indicate that they are looking, for example, for a rapeseed or sunflower plantation for their bees

The benefit is thus mutual, as bees brought to the site can pollinate more plants, which means more crops. And the seven hundred beekeepers of the Austrian capital can count on more honey, which the people of Vienna can then eat – the summary states.

MTI