🦋 POLLINATOR WEEK 🐝

📰 Netherlands: Newly created biodiversity‑offset grasslands are already strong habitat for wild pollinators.

🌼 Offset sites had 2X more wild bees than long‑established grasslands, plus higher bee species richness. Hoverflies and flower abundance were similar, even if species mixes differed.

🛠️ Researchers stress that success depends on careful planning and active management.

🌻 “...when implemented well, biodiversity offset sites can be as good, and may initially even be better, than existing sites in terms of wild pollinator species richness.”

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-biodiversity-offsetting-pollinator.html

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