Conclusion: Cultural background in the engineering ecological measures planning

The best valuable innovations will be of no use, if they will not be supported by people, in other words, if the innovations will not be con gruent with the culture of the society.

Social insects (ants and bees first of all) cause human curiosity Honey bees and bumblebees cause warm feelings among the most of European societies, but bumblebees are associated with some sentimental sorrow. Anyway, most nations feel sympathy to them. In spite of this, the bumble beekeeping business in Europe is developed very whimsically. The reasons of it are also cultural to large extent as well, as obviously economic ones.

Recommendations of bumblebees’ protection within the human settlements include the refuse (or rstriction) of the two urban cultural traditions: grass cutting (this leaves bumblebees without food supply) and of removing all the old leaves and grass from the ground (and especially burning of this staff), because it dispossesses bumblebees the nesting and hibernation places.

There are no serious obstacles within cultural, psychological or religious fields for bumble beekeeping in Russia. The first practical steps in this sphere seem to be promising. If the adequate investments and informational support will be provided, the process of implementation and integration of bumblebees in the contemporary agriculture will be successful.