Latest Blog Posts

Who listens to the bugs?

Last week I blogged about bug communication, concluding with the point that bugs are unable to communicate directly with humans about the damage that we are doing to their homes...

23/05/2014

Bugs are capable of complex and amazing communication with each other, with other animals and with plants. These communications evolved to enable bugs to avoid threats, secure resources, and breed. ...

16/05/2014

UK Parliament Celebrates Bees and Pollinators

Last Wednesday (30 April 2014) Buglife and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Biodiversity hosted a “Pollinator Strategy Reception and Bee Walk” in the House of Commons – focussed on...

09/05/2014

Helping our natural heritage hit the Lottery jackpot

This week’s blog is a guest feature by Drew Bennellick, Head of Landscape and Natural Heritage at the Heritage Lottery Fund. HLF funding for the natural environment is exceedingly important...

01/05/2014

Unequal distribution of aid

Many people love ladybirds, earthworms, bumblebees, butterflies and other bugs and the vast majority of people understand that invertebrates are essential for healthy ecosystems. But people generally don’t spend a...

24/04/2014

Help Our Government to Help Our Pollinators

The Government is currently consulting the public on what it should do to protect our pollinators. This is your chance to tell them how much you care about securing healthy...

17/04/2014

Big is Best but not for Bugs

This week's blog is a guest feature – by Germaine Greer. Germaine is Buglife’s President and has been helping the charity to champion the cause of ‘saving the small things that run the...

11/04/2014

Whitleigh’s Buzzing

Whitleigh has been a hive of activity lately. After site preparation of the meadow was completed by Plymouth City Council, Plymouth's Buzzing was joined on Tuesday 11 March by two...

07/04/2014

A Whale of a Decision

On the last day of March the International Court of Justice took a momentous decision. It ruled that Japan’s whaling activities in the Southern Oceans were commercial and not scientific. ...

04/04/2014

The Drugs (Neonicotinoids) Don’t Work

For over 20 years Neonicotinoid pesticides have been pushed onto British farmers by the agrochemical industry, becoming the most abundantly used insecticides. We already know they are a high risk...

28/03/2014