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Disney World has revealed how it doesn’t let its life-sized gingerbread Christmas displays go to waste - by donating them to swarms of bees.
| 14 Jan 2022
Disney World has revealed how it doesn’t let its life-sized gingerbread Christmas displays go to waste - by donating them to swarms of bees.
With bee populations on the decline worldwide, Disney revealed that its gingerbread houses get distributed across its pollinator-friendly gardens across the Disney World property, in order to give the hives a sugary treat.
“Ten years ago, when performing our annual gingerbread display cleaning, we noticed bees were very attracted to the sugar on the displays after deconstruction,” Barry Stockwell, planned work specialist with Event Decorating Support, told the Disney Parks Blog.
“We decided to bring the display pieces to our Disney tree farm and lay them out in our field to give the bees a chance to collect the sugar on the wooden structures.”
Once the gingerbread is removed from the displays, it’s recycled to use for compositing, leaving a wooden structure covered in sugar.
The Event Decorating Support team then breaks down the structure piece by piece and transports it to the Walt Disney World Resort tree farm, where the bees then find the sugar-coated wooden pieces and collect the sugar.
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