Since the middle of the 20th century, the proportion of this richly flowering extensive grassland has been steadily declining throughout Europe, and hand in hand with the decline of its habitat, butterflies, wild bees, grasshoppers and other insects are becoming increasingly rare.

This decline coincides with the disappearance of a once richly structured cultural landscape. Therefore, our goal must be to reverse this trend and re-enrich our habitat with biodiversity.

This will only be possible if we restructure our cultural landscape to be more diverse and create new habitats and food sources for endangered plants and animals by establishing species-rich flowering areas. The following is a brief summary of how such valuable beneficial insect flowering strips can be permanently re-established in the cultural landscape in practice.

New sowings with species-rich regional arable and grassland seed mixtures (DIVRS) - PDF view

 

Management of biodiversity areas in agriculture

 

 Cultivation of flowering strips in arable farming

 

Final report: Beneficial insect flower strips and undersown crops regulate aphids in legumes