Amy-Jayne Dutton, from Stoke-on-Trent, has recently uprooted from her home comforts to move to the remote island of St Helena, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic… to take...
10/11/2016
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Getting a Buzz into Birmingham
A personal perspective from Nick Packham is the Urban Buzz officer for Birmingham, who has been with the project since the start in October 2015. Nick is tasked with creating...
10/11/2016
Pollinator Conservation in Agriculture
By Scott Hoffman Black – Executive Director Xerces Society Recently, conservationists have been discussing the role of agriculture in helping pollinators—and for good reason. About half of the U.S. land...
03/10/2016
Saving St Helena’s Bugs on the Brink: Building the Capability of a Budding Conservationist
Sasha Bargo from St Helena, a UK Overseas Territory situated in the remote South Atlantic, recently joined the RSPB and Buglife on a placement after her time studying her degree...
01/09/2016
Wild Bee Declines and Neonics Case Closed – What next?
A new scientific paper produced by scientists at CEH (UK Government research institute/consultancy) has analysed English bee distribution data from BWARS and pesticide data gathered by Fera. The results are...
17/08/2016
July has been a hive of activity for the Torbay’s Buzzing project
Childrens’ art competition to design a postcard to be attached to wildflower seed packets We ran an art competition open to all primary schools in Torbay. This was to design...
29/07/2016
Marketing Bugs
At first sight marketing bugs could be considered in the same bracket as carrying coals to Newcastle and this is despite the great work done by Buglife. If you poll...
04/07/2016
June 2016 Torbay’s Buzzing blog
Well, a lot has been happening recently to get Torbay Buzzing! I’ve been concentrating on getting some pollinator cafes planted up, launching our Torbay’s Buzzing Big Pollinator Survey; and running...
01/07/2016
The first wildflower meadow in the Torbay’s Buzzing project is sown!
Buglife has created the first “Torbay’s Buzzing” wildflower meadow at Stoodley Knowle, Torquay, with help from Torbay Council and local volunteers from the “Friends of Stoodley Knowle” (FoSK). Wildflower seeds...
12/04/2016
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Why save a spider?
A guest blog from author Jules Howard on saving a rare spider Look at the image to the right of this text. This is the only photo that exists of...
30/03/2016