World’s first ‘highway’ to protect endangered bees

I have previously posted about an underground toad road and speculated on turtle turnpikes and frog freeways, and now we have a bee highway.  The bee highway, though, looks like a pretty cool, voluntary program to benefit the pollinators.

From flower emblazoned cemeteries to rooftop gardens and balconies, Norway’s capital Oslo is creating a “bee highway” to protect endangered pollinators essential to food production.  With its sunflowers, marigolds and other nectar-bearing flowers planted by bee-loving locals and school children, Abel’s Garden was until recently covered only in grass but is now a floral “feeding station” for bees. Oslo’s “bee highway” aims to give the insects a safe passage through the city, lined with relays providing food an shelter — the first such system in the world, according to the organizers. Participants in the project — state bodies, companies, associations and private individuals — are invited to post their contribution on a website www.polli.no, which maps out the bees’ route across the city...more