All posts tagged bees

Press-release from Buglife - the invertebrate Conservation Trust, 13 November 2012

Buglife is asking the Government to justify its decision to allow the use of bee killing pesticides or

We have been soaking our countryside with powerful poisons (pesticides, herbicides etc) for decades and the results are obvious to anyone who follows environmental matters, as insects disappear

Picture the scene. I'm wandering around the garden in the one 30-minute period of sunshine all day when I spot a tiny bee or wasp munching on pollen,

A couple of days ago I found a bee at Great Chalfield that I couldn't identify. Dark-winged, with a dark abdomen with narrow silver/white bands it was

It may well be just the result of a certain character trait that means I obsess over 'new things', but I am getting seriously hooked on this whole

More notes from the wonderful world of 'How did I not know this stuff was out there?", aka 'Wandering around Great Chalfield having fun and learning something

'Pan' what now? Yes, you probably missed it, but Tris and I are having a go at 'panrecording' - ie recording everything we find in our 'patches' (which

Almost two years ago I wrote a blog post about the 'Silent Summer' - the looming loss of bees and other insects from the British countryside. In

Living on the National Trust's Great Chalfield Estate gives me some interesting opportunities when it comes to looking for wildlife in the grassland/unimproved pasture/'wildlife-friendly' farmland habitats that