Mir­ja Neff is a BUND wild bee ambassa­dor, a natu­ral gar­den plan­ner trai­ned by the natu­ral gar­den spe­cia­list Ahorn­blatt Gar­ten, a natu­re pho­to­grapher, a gar­den gui­de in Rhein­hes­sen and the gar­den owner of a 600 m² natu­ral gar­den with over 70 wild bee spe­ci­es in it. She has crea­ted two out­stan­ding web­sites. Wildbienengarten.de pro­vi­des infor­ma­ti­on on gar­dening for wild bees — with plant com­bi­na­ti­ons for replan­ting and lots of back­ground infor­ma­ti­on. The Plan­ting sug­ges­ti­ons and flowe­ring calen­dar as a PDF for every bed size and every loca­ti­on help to plant wild­flowers in beau­tiful, func­tio­ning com­mu­ni­ties in the gar­den and on the bal­c­o­ny. This also encou­ra­ges spe­cia­li­zed wild bees and but­ter­flies, which depend on many of the plants shown the­re and in the pre­sen­ta­ti­on for their sur­vi­val. 

Con­tent of the pic­tu­re pre­sen­ta­ti­on:

This talk by the wild bee ambassa­dor is not about wild bees, but about the many other small ani­mals. Which insects can be dis­co­ver­ed on the bal­c­o­ny, attrac­ted to the bal­c­o­ny and which plants and struc­tures do they use? The illus­tra­ted lec­tu­re pro­vi­des tips on prac­ti­cal imple­men­ta­ti­on for dra­gon­flies, gras­shop­pers, beet­les, .… Your own bal­c­o­ny is small, spe­ci­es extinc­tion is big, Mir­ja pres­ents the solu­ti­on: How to use a cal­cu­la­tor to opti­mi­ze your input for bio­di­ver­si­ty.