Osmia cornuta was a good start to the wild bee surveying season today at @fulhampalace.bsky.social

A sea of Muscari today on the NOMURA biodiverse roof feeding bumblebee queens in the spring sun.

@hackneycouncil.bsky.social has decided Shoreditch Park Primary Schools destruction of green space and replacing with toxic plastic grass is a breach of policy and orders the land restored!
A win for climate change and biodiversity.

Busy start to the week making bee nesting boxes with observation drawers so we can monitor what species are nesting in detail.

This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it. Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.

www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Youth Grants A £500 Grow Wild grant to bring your nature project to life.

Kew Gardens grow wild youth grants are now open until 19th March.
Last year I supported a youth group to apply and they attained the Youth Environmental Leadership Award. growwild.kew.org/apply-grant/...

Saving which bees?

Not the commonest bee on earth (300 million colonies globally) least at risk, free ranging managed livestock, largely non native and themselves invasive in most parts of the world where they occur?

How does giving save bees?

Please bee specific

Have you seen Bumblebees on the wing this winter? Wonder what they are doing?

This blog post might interest you!

www.apicultural.co.uk/monitoring-a...

How good are green roofs for bees?

My experimentations and 6 years of data collection from central London roofs.

www.apicultural.co.uk/how-good-are...

I get really bored and loose all respect for those making claims such as ‘no bees no life on earth’

Bees have been around 130 million years and pollinators in general not much longer than that. Terrestrial life on earth existed for 3 billion years before them.

Yes Life would be more difficult