What is that this uncommon bee doing in Dresden?

Dresden has another animal species. As a part of a challenge with the environmental heart, a uncommon wild bee has now been discovered within the heart of Elbe, on the Weißeritz inexperienced belt in Cotta – the sharp-legged bee. To this point this bee is barely identified from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and it solely happens very not often and domestically, mentioned the environmental heart. The identify of the species refers to a particular attribute of the males, he mentioned. The final a part of the antenna is often curved and tapering.

Based on animal rights activists, it’s tough to tell apart the females, that are about 10 to 12 millimeters in dimension, from comparable species of bees within the subject. The sharp-legged bee seems in a wide range of dry, heat habitats. It’s important for the species that the habitat has each the correct nesting and the correct meals provide. On the German Purple Record of Endangered Animals, Vegetation and Fungi, wild bees are labeled as critically endangered.

The environmental heart in Dresden not too long ago launched a challenge known as BienenBrückenBauen. Since there was no intensive and systematic recording of untamed bees in Dresden till now, nature lovers are actually anticipating extra wild bees to be discovered. (dpa)