We're planting wildflowers – you'll be a godparent
Together with our partners, we are using Beegnette to create near-natural flower meadows that are more than just beautiful: they are scientifically monitored, meticulously maintained, and are true oases for endangered wild bee species.
In the video, Tom Strobl, biologist and co-founder of Wildbiene + Partner, explains:
- how we prepare suitable locations for wildflowers,
- why structurally rich areas and nesting aids are so crucial,
- how we professionally monitor and document the development of habitats.
Secure your Beegnette now & create real habitat for wild bees with your flower sponsorship.
A visible sign
With the Beegnette, you receive a high-quality certificate – the official proof of your flower sponsorship. It includes an exclusive art sticker (Ø 6 cm), which is newly designed by an artist each year. This sticker makes your sponsorship visible – whether on your laptop, mailbox, or car. It is more than just a sticker: a small work of art that shows your dedication to biodiversity.
A small surprise for your balcony or garden
For all those who want to get actively involved – with a hand-picked selection of wild plants, specially developed for wild bees by our biologists.
Knowledge & Impact
You will receive a lovingly designed information envelope with details about your contribution. This way, you can understand the impact of your sponsorship – and have something inspiring to pass on if you give the Beegnette as a gift.
A lasting contribution
Your Beegnette transforms your contribution into real habitat. The areas you co-finance are professionally maintained, scientifically monitored, and provide food and nesting sites for endangered wild bee species – for years to come.
Wild bees are among the most important pollinators in our nature. Without them, there would be hardly any fruit, vegetables, or species-rich flower meadows. However, over half of the wild bee species in Germany are now endangered – many are even acutely threatened with extinction.
The main reasons:
- Intensive agriculture with pesticides and large-scale monocultures
- Land sealing due to roads, settlements, and parking lots
- Lack of habitats, e.g., structurally rich flower meadows or suitable nesting sites
- Lack of food: many species are highly specialized – if their plant is missing, the bee also disappears
With the flower sponsorship "Beegnette," you help precisely here:
You support perennial, professionally managed flower areas that offer endangered species long-term food and protection.
The "Beegnette" is an annual blooming sponsorship – made visible by a sticker. With your contribution, you finance professional habitats for wild bees – where they are most urgently needed.
Wild bees are indispensable for functioning ecosystems. They pollinate over 80% of our native wild and cultivated plants. Without their pollination services, there would be less fruit, vegetables, seeds, and species-rich flower meadows.
Studies show:
- Targeted Pollination: Wild bees ensure the genetic diversity of plants. (Source: Austrian Environment Agency, 2020)
- Specialized Helpers: Many plants can only survive with certain wild bee species. (Source: NHM Vienna, 2016)
- Secure Harvests: Where there are many wild bees, harvests are more stable and healthier – a real contribution to food security. (Source: University of Freiburg, 2023)
However, more than half of the approximately 560 wild bee species in Germany are endangered – primarily due to habitat loss. With your "Beegnette" flower sponsorship, you help bring back their habitat – bloom by bloom.
Our "Beegnette" areas are created in Germany and Switzerland – always where wild bees and other pollinators urgently need more habitat. We work together with experienced farmers and regional partners. Each area is carefully selected according to ecological criteria and professionally supported from the very beginning.
This includes:
- Soil preparation and sowing with native wild plants (up to 100 species per area).
- Creation of diverse structures such as sand lenses, deadwood, or BeeHomes for various wild bee species.
- Care and monitoring by biologists and farmers, so that the areas can develop year after year.
- Documentation and transparency – we record which plants are growing, which wild bees are nesting, and how biodiversity is developing.
This is how species-rich flowering areas are created, which become part of a larger network – ecologically meaningfully connected, scientifically monitored, and cared for over many years.
Here you can find an overview of our locations: To the flowering areas
For those who want more than just a gesture: The Beegnette is ideal for people who want to give a conscious gift – and visibly make a difference in the process.
For birthdays
A gift that lasts – vibrant, meaningful, and buzzing anew each year.
For Mother's Day
For all those who make everything bloom – a loving thank you to the power of life.
For births
A lively start to life – with a sponsorship that grows together with the child.
For Christmas
A quiet statement for hope, the future, and a buzzing, intact nature.
Converted areas
Thanks to the supporters of our Beegnette initiative, over 30,000 m² of valuable habitats for wild bees and other insects have been created since 2022. The locations were carefully selected to enable maximum ecological networking while also giving our wild bee community the opportunity to visit these areas personally. Here you will find an overview of our projects. In the coming weeks, we will supplement individual project pages with detailed documentation on the progress and the positive effects on local biodiversity.
