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Adopt a wild bee

Treat your bee to her favourite flowers.

Every neighbourhood in Amsterdam has its own wild bee. Look up yours, plant the flowers she needs and adopt her. That way you do something for biodiversity in your own street.

  1. 1Find your bee
    Your postcode or neighbourhood sets the species.
  2. 2Choose her flowers
    With flowering time and where to get them.
  3. 3Adopt
    Name and email, nothing else.

In short

Adopt a wild bee in three steps.

Find your neighbourhood on the map, put out your bee’s favourite flowers and see who comes by. Spot her? Send a photo.

Or click your neighbourhood on the map.

Every neighbourhood its own bee

110 neighbourhoods · 102 species

Wild bees fly only 100 to 300 metres. That is why we choose, for each neighbourhood, the species that belongs there, with the flowers she needs.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Neighbourhoods and bees: RefuBees.

All bees

Curious about the other species?

From bumblebees to plasterer bees: see all the wild bees that have found a place in Amsterdam’s neighbourhoods.

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Together with the neighbourhood

Want to do more than one bee?

Become a totem host, or ask for one for your street, school or neighbourhood group.

All the ways to join in