Stage 4

The garden of lost songs

Decimo came to the highest clearing in the forest. Everything was like in his grandfather’s stories: the bell tower, the tables and the large beehive. But now, like the rest of the forest, the clearing was shrouded in a deep silence that seemed to guard the memory of a lost world. Decimus approached the petrified beehive, his eyes fixed on those empty cells, once the guardians of so much sweetness. From one of them, the smallest, a faint voice emerged…

Oh my, what a mirage to see you arrive,
No one had come so far to our hive!  
We bees once danced from flower to flower,
but now they’ve lost their scent and power.
If you want to help our world bloom anew,
one last secret is waiting for you:
Among the flowers we used to roam,
how many could we pollinate?

To obtain the fourth clue, count how many of the flowers on display are pollinated by bees!
Write this number down or keep it in mind, you will need it along with the others to solve the mystery. Continue now to stage No.5! 

What to observe

Cymatic Hill is an ideal environment for a wide variety of pollinating insects thanks to the rich diversity of nectariferous and melliferous plants, such as black locust and black elder.

In addition to the better known honey bees (Apis mellifera), wood bees (Xylocopa spp.), large solitary insects recognisable by their shiny black bodies and their powerful ability to dig tunnels in dead wood to lay their eggs, can also be observed here. There are also numerous species of bumblebees (Bombus spp.), robust and hairy insects.

The presence of these pollinators is an indicator of good environmental quality and underlines the importance of preserving heterogeneous environments rich in wild flowers.