Status & Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) Project

The project Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of important European pollinator groups, in particular bees and lay the groundwork for future pollinator monitoring programmes.  STEP will also assess the relative importance of potential [...]

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Get Britain Buzzing

Buglife President Germaine Greer, Wildlife Presenter Bill Oddie and former Prime Minister Tony Blair today become ambassadors for a new campaign at The Royal Society in London to help ‘Get Britain Buzzing’. The campaign led by Buglife hopes to highlight the crisis facing pollinating insects such as bees, hoverflies and moths. The launch event is [...]

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Government review of pesticide released – but what about our wild pollinators

Government releases honeybee review of neonicotinoid pesticide – but what about our wild pollinators? 10th March 2011 Buglife and other environmental charities are very concerned that Government inaction means that controversial neonicotinoid pesticides are continuing to damage bees and other wildlife; this is despite a newly released Government report claiming that field studies show “no [...]

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Wesley Fleming Glass Insect Sculptor

Checkout Wesley Fleming’s superb glass insect sculptures More in his Flickr Gallery See how he does it here:

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Wealth of Orchid Varieties Is Down to Busy Bees and Helpful Fungi, Says Study

Scientists have discovered why orchids are one of the most successful groups of flowering plants — it is all down to their relationships with the bees that pollinate them and the fungi that nourish them. The study, published February 1 in the American Naturalist, is the culmination of a ten-year research project in South Africa [...]

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The Invisible Highway

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Lincolnshire BioBlitz 2010

From the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust: Join our BioBlitz - 9 & 10 July 2010 at Banovallum House, Horncastle A BioBlitz is a 24 hour wildlife survey where we try to find and identify as much wildlife as possible… and we need your help. Everyone can take part in finding wildlife during the BioBlitz event and it’s [...]

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Bugs Britannica

Further info and reviews: Telegraph & Amazon

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Sir David Attenborough: ‘Wildlife disaster heralds silent summer’

AFTER Silent Spring, Britain now faces the silent summer. Fifty years after Rachel Carson’s seminal book about humanity’s impact on nature, Sir David Attenborough has warned that Britain’s wildlife could be on the edge of the next great environmental disaster. He has written the foreword to a new book, Silent Summer, in which 40 leading [...]

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Let children collect flowers and fossils says Sir David Attenborough

Children are being denied the chance to learn one of the key “foundation stones” of science because of laws that prevent them from collecting wild flowers, insects and fossils, according to Sir David Attenborough. The veteran natural history broadcaster and naturalist fears that children are no longer learning about how to identify and classify species [...]

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