Battery Park's 'Air Bee n Bees' provide native bees with homes in NYC

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The engineered alternatives mimic the habitat that native bees look for, giving them a better home and a chance to thrive in an urban environment.

Battery Park in New York City is taking steps to boost the declining population of native bees with the installation of 'Air Bee n Bees'. These engineered alternatives mimic the habitat that native bees look for, giving them a better home and a chance to thrive in an urban environment.If you’re walking through Battery Park, you may be confused to see what appear to be wood logs stuck into the ground, stuffed with other smaller sticks and twigs.

But they're part of some art project, they are ‘Air Bee n Bees,’ bee hotels designed to give bees a habitat and help the ecosystem. "We’ve installed 10 of these native bee hotels all throughout Battery Park City they’re sort of tucked away in little spots," said David Wallace, the Director of Horticulture at Battery Park City Authority.One of the ‘Air Bee n Bees’ designed to help New York City's native bees."Native bees are solitary they live as individuals, and they lay their eggs in the cracks and crevices between plants and between rocks," shared Wallace."In the urban environment.

"They are specialist pollinators so certain plants can only be pollinated by certain bees," Wallace explained.About 10 of the new designs are being installed along Manhattan’s waterfront.

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