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Oslo has the busiest bees
Answers for Globle, Metazooa, Elemingle and more from May 12 - May 18
Abe Train
May 19, 2025
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Oslo has the busiest bees
I wonder if the bee highway ever has traffic jams?
Listen. Do you hear that faint buzzing noise? No, it’s not a cellphone vibrating - it’s a highway of bees stretching over 20 km across the city of Oslo (Capitals answer for May 14), capital of Norway. This bee highway, or pollinator passage, was developed by an urban guild of beekeepers to ensure more bees can navigate and settle down in the city. Bees are essential for spreading pollen and fertilizing plants, and their populations are under threat, especially in bigger cities where shelter and food are a challenge.
The bee highway in Oslo runs from Holmenkollen in the north to Nøkklevann lake in the southeast. It is composed of green rooftops, balcony gardens, lush parks, beehives, and flower-covered cemeteries. The goal is for there to be little to no gaps, or dead zones, along the route. The project began in 2014 and is a crowd-sourced initiative where people can enter their contributions on a website that maps the bees’ route.
Oslo’s bee highway is a neat example of a local solution to a global problem - the bee shortage. Agriculture is immensely dependent on pollinators like bees for food production, and without bees, approximately a third of our human diet is gone. To put it numerically: bees contribute an estimated $200 billion to human food production worldwide.
If you want to take a page out of Oslo’s book, try planting some bee-friendly native plants outside your house, whether in your garden or on a balcony. Bees love flowers like lavender, primrose and marigold, and the more the merrier! Perhaps your wildflowers will be home to a bee on a long journey across your city.
Learn more: The Guardian, Visit Norway, The Star
Trivia
Honeybee queens can live up to ____, while worker bees often live ______ in the summer |
Answers to last week's games
Monday, May 12 to Sunday, May 18
Globle
| Globle: Capitals
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Chronogram
| Fictogram
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Metazooa
| Metaflora
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Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#454 bend → bent → crooked → legitimate
#455 its → hers → wife → married
#456 behavior → communication → mail → send
#457 authority → rights → right → perfect
#458 jump → lift → strength → wisdom
#459 portrait → pose → flexing → strengthen
#460 exhibit → culture → people → nobody
#461 Play now!
Elemingle
#110 Darmstadtium
#111 Helium
#112 Tantalum
#113 Molybdenum
#114 Silver
#115 Oganesson
#116 Hafnium
#117 Play now!
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