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Scherpenseeler Denne

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Scherpenseeler Denne

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Scherpenseeler Denne

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NSG Teverener Heide

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Location: Übach-Palenberg, Heinsberg, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

October 19, 2021

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++ Topic: Scherpenseeler Denne: former sand-lime brick factory - new home for wild bees

"... It was an impressive spectacle: excavators dug deeper and deeper into the landscape with a loud roar to extract sand. This is an important component in the manufacture of sand-lime bricks, which used to be produced here in the specially located factory. But work has been stopped since the late 1990s and today only the huge pit at our feet is reminiscent of the loud scenario The former open-cast mine now offers a new home for many rare animal and plant species that like it dry, warm and open.

This also applies to the wild bees, of which over 120 different species now live in the Teverener Heide. There are sand bees who fill the hole with sand when they leave their burrow so that no foreigners can enter.

Or the silk bees that dig long tunnels into the earth before they are built. There are even cuckoo bees which, like the cuckoo, lay their eggs in other people's structures. Most wild bees live "solitary", that is, individually and not like honey bees in large states. The sand bee lives in self-dug earth nests. The created nest tubes lead up to half a meter vertically into the ground. ... "

Further information can be found here:

teverenerheide.de/downloads/Routenmaterial1-Vier_auf_einen_Streich.pdf

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Kerstin

December 25, 2023

Great tour every time

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Hvb

October 21, 2025

nice quiet road

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Elevation 150 m

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Saturday 13 December

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Location: Übach-Palenberg, Heinsberg, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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