Celebrate bees RHS Garden Wisley on #Countryfile tonight at 5pm on BBC One!

Hamza Yassin will meet our beekeeper, uncover the microbiome of honeybee hives, while Samantha Kinghorn joins our wildlife specialist to discover bumblebees’ favourite nectar sources 🐝

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

[new paper] Pollinators increase crop yield, but measuring their effect is complicated. Here we 1) synthesize almost 100 studies globally: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… and 2) provide a dynamic paper to update results as more studies emerge: ibartomeus.github.io/CropPollinatio…

WOW 😍 We have 299 of your hotels registered with The Big Bee Hotel Experiment!

Challenge: Help us reach 350 by the end of this week! Share and shout about our most popular project yet 🐝

thebuzzclub.uk/thebigbeehotel…

The Wildlife Community Dave Goulson Ellen Rotheray University of Sussex LNHS

Wow! How amazing is this? 👇

Taking part in National Plant Monitoring Scheme this year?
You'll find Lords & Ladies in woodlands across most of UK apart from northern Scotland & a few other places where (intriguingly) it's absent.
Want to learn more about this wild plant?
Check its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.…

We are very excited for our Citizen Science Virtual Symposium with the Biological Recording Company Keiron Derek Brown on the 16th May!

Speakers: Dave Goulson Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 Dr Beth Nicholls Yanet Sepúlveda Ellen Rotheray

More information and booking link here: biologicalrecording.co.uk/2024/02/29/cit…

Pollen is essential food for bees, but we know so little about it's availability at a landscape-scale... Our new paper in New Phytologist led by Ellen Wright quantifies pollen at a species, habitat and landscape scale, helping us improve landscapes for bees! doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…🧵

Join #BuglifeScotland 's #PollinatorsAlongTheTweed Conservation Officer, Kate, & Buglife #BLines Officer, Rachel, for FIT Count Training!

🗓️ Monday 22 April
🕙 10:30-13:00
📌 East Gate Theatre, EH45 8AD

🐝Learn how to monitor pollinator in your local green spaces.

#PAtT

If you hear a loud buzz nearby, have a look around. It could be a nest-searching bumblebee queen 👑

You might see her flying low over the ground, often in a zig zag pattern, as she investigates the ground for a good nesting spot 🏡

Have you spotted any nest-searching queens?

Save the date - 19 June. For our free online 2024 Conference the theme will be pollinator-friendly actions & features Local Authorities, our All-Ireland counterparts, Nature Networks, NHS grounds, and a fascinating project in Arnhem. e: [email protected] for details

My local Kenilworth Wood seemed to wake up this weekend and provided some lovely hoverfly encounters including Megasyrphus erraticus, Criorhina ranunculi, Fagisyrphus cinctus and Parasyrphus annulatus amongst other things.

Beautiful day for FIT Counts today in Akrotiri Cyprus with the students from the Grammar School UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme Helen Roy David Roy 🐛 Biodiversity Challenge Funds

This year's UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme Flower-Insect Timed Count season has started - but please wait for suitable weather before starting your #pollinator counts! 🪰🐝🪲🦋

Find out more about taking part: ukpoms.org.uk/taking-part

#DataNature

Data from the first four years of UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme have been published via the UKCEH Environmental Information Data Centre, with subsequent years to follow

Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/data

Data from nature, for nature #DataNature 💚

Pollinating insects play a vital role in the environment but species have declined since 1980.

Data collected for UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme help to detect changes in pollinator populations 🪰🐝🪲

Data from nature, for nature 💚 #DataNature

ceh.ac.uk/data-nature?ut…

FIT Counts in Cyprus unveiling insect visitors like the stunning carpenter bee pictured here! kelly Martinou

The Arabica coffee story exemplifies the reach of pollination services. Income of small farmers, revenues of developing countries, conservation of tropical forests, let alone your morning caffeine kick. More in Athayde's blog @ scottishpollinators.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/but…

🦋The latest results from the annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme UKBMS Live Data are published ukbms.org/official-stati…
Overall, the latest findings are mixed. Around half of species at monitored sites had a better than average year, while the other half were below average.

This April look out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces 🌷🌱🦋

Discover more species with tips on how you can help them by signing up to our monthly enewsletter 👉 butrfli.es/2Td2KQg

#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

April welcomes the return of the Big Eight 🎱🐝 #BumblebeesAreBack

This month, some queens will emerge from hibernation. Already active queens will produce their first daughters – the workers 💼

Have you spotted any bumblebees over the Easter weekend?