Insect meadows

A feast for bees as well as for human eyes – these are the two noble purposes of the flowery meadows that the university tends for around dormitory and faculty buildings in the so-called Envelopa campus. In areas sown with plants important for bees and other insects, you can admire blue cornflowers and other colourful meadow flowers. In the wider city centre, you'll find few places better suited to spotting and photographing butterflies, bumblebees or dragonflies.

To further help the biodiversity, insect hotels are built around the meadows – tiny houses with hiding places for adult butterflies as well as caterpillar pupation areas, wooden cavities for beetles and solitary bees, or drilled holes in brick for potter wasps. Details of how they work can be found on the information boards on site.

The meadows are occasionally mown during the growing season, so you won't always find them in full bloom. You can, however, always enjoy the spectacular street art paintings on the walls of the surrounding dormitory buildings or go and see unusual minerals in the nearby Faculty of Science geopark.