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Insect hotels

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For biodiversity, homemade insect hotels were set up in a collaborative project on campus.

For insects like wild bees and bumblebees, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find shelter and nesting sites. Because in order to create living space, nature is increasingly being pushed out of cities. The TU Dortmund Sustainability Office, the General Students' Committee (AStA), the "Campus for Future" group and the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB) have therefore built insect hotels for the campus in a joint campaign. Many endangered insect species will be able to overwinter and nest in the boxes in the future.

"With this campaign, we want to set a visible example for environmental protection. Insect protection is a concern of TU Dortmund University - just like all other sustainability topics," says Bastian Stahlbuck from TU Dortmund working group on sustainability. "The hotels can be built relatively quickly and placed on campus. What's particularly nice is that we assemble the boxes in a group. That way we also get to exchange ideas with each other." 

"So you can also easily build the hotels at home for your own garden. You usually already have a lot of materials or you can buy them second-hand," says Henning Moldenhauer, who heads the sustainability office. The office was newly founded in June to support the Sustainability Working Group at TU Dortmund University in initiating and implementing sustainable projects. 

Bee hotels as an art project

Two more boxes stand on the meadow between the library and Emil-Figge-Str. 50. TU student Isabell Hesse made two bee hotels as an art project as part of a seminar. The students in the seminar had the task of making statistics visible. Isabell Hesse took the statistics on forest bees in Germany as her theme. Her bee hotels therefore also show how many wild bee species are endangered or threatened with extinction in Germany.