As part of a year of activities to celebrate their 10th Anniversary, wildlife charity Buglife Scotland hope to rediscover some of Scotland’s rarest ‘lost’ bees, bugs and beetles. And spotting spotted pot beetles got the year off to a flying start.

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Two new scientific studies published today in the top ranking Science journal throw further light on the profound damage that neonicotinoid insecticides are doing to wildlife and beneficial insects.  Buglife is calling on Defra Secretary of State Michael Gove to consider the new evidence of harm and undertake a review of the Government’s opposition to measures to protect bees from pesticides.

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A study produced in March 2016 by Rural Business Research and the Institute of Agri‐Food Research and Innovation at Newcastle University was widely reported in the media as showing that the neonicotinoid ban on flowering crops had cost UK farmers £18.4 million in increased pest control expenditure. The claim was made in the press release and was not made in the text of the full report.

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Lord Mayor of Cardiff makes Buglife and RSPB joint beneficiaries of his appeal

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The RSPB and Buglife ask the public to give nature a home in their gardens this summer by planting food for some of the UK’s overlooked pollinators – hoverflies.  

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