- For a quarter of a century, bees have been producing honey at Hamburg Airport.
Buzzing Bliss at Hamburg Airport: Bees have been actively flitting around the airport premises for a whopping 25 years, generating scrumptious honey. Besides that, they act as "bio-sensors," the airport revealed. "Honey, wax, and pollen offer additional data points on air quality beyond official readings." As per Ingo Fehr, the airport's dedicated beekeeper, the honeybees have amassed more than enough nectar over the past 25 years to fill approximately 15,000 honey jars.
It's not merely these 200,000-plus honeybees that engage in takeoff and landing exercises on the airport's lush vegetation. "The wild bee project, an initiative by the airport in collaboration with the German Wildlife Foundation, is now celebrating its tenth anniversary." Its purpose is to extend the living space for insects, a population that's progressively teetering towards extinction.
The 200,000-plus honeybees at Hamburg Airport not only produce delicious honey but also serve as vital pollinators, contributing to the flourishing of various plant species among the airport's vegetation. Furthermore, wild bee populations, including other species, benefit from the airport's wild bee project, which has been successfully running for a decade, providing them with essential habitats.
