The Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the City of Bonn has initiated the project "Blossoms for insects - advice and support for daycare centers in creating a flowering meadow or flower bed". To ensure that insects in the city continue to find enough food and breeding grounds in the future, children from five daycare centers in Bonn have created small flowering areas in the facilities. Native flowering plants from the region grow here in summer and provide habitats for wild bees, bumblebees and other insects. The daycare centers are closely supported by the Bonn/Rhein-Erft Biological Station.

"The aim is to focus on the protection and promotion of wild bees and other insects for children and to get them excited about it," explains Sandra Krueger, employee of the City of Bonn's Lower Nature Conservation Authority, during a sowing campaign at the Grashüpfer municipal kindergarten in Pützchen-Bechlinghoven. "This can create awareness and appreciation for insects among the younger generation. The children experience the great diversity of the plant and animal world and their interrelationships in a practical way, awakening their spirit of discovery."

Together with the Lower Nature Conservation Authority and the staff of the Biological Station, the children selected a suitable area for the flowering meadow and prepared a finely crumbled seedbed in which the flowering plants can thrive optimally. They then sowed cornflowers, daisies, poppies and other insect-friendly plants from a perennial Regio seed mixture. Several dates are planned before the beds bloom in early summer: Throughout the growing and flowering phase, the Biological Station will accompany and advise the children and Kita staff, always in close consultation with the city's Lower Nature Conservation Authority.