Ro from our volunteering team visited Sydlings Copse to find the work party busy with rakes and cakes! 🍰 The group are looking for new volunteers, get involved by emailing [email protected]. Find a full list of volunteering opportunities here: buff.ly/3GnvysD

We’re hiring! The Café Experience Manager will support the running of the café in our Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham, fostering an excellent experience and engaging our visitors with nature. For more information and to apply: buff.ly/3MqDTjX

From pollinating to keeping unwanted visitors from your garden, insects can be an organic gardeners best friend. 🐞🐝 Find out more about some of our favourite insect helpers and check the guide for plants to put in your garden to attract them! 🔎🌿 wtru.st/3T83PEQ

September is a transitional time to see late-emerging dragonflies (and the hobbies which feed on them!), early arriving fungi, and some miniature house guests looking for a safe place to mate… See what you can spot this month: buff.ly/4dNBdZE 📷 Jon Hawkins

We're delighted that Dr Erica McAlister Dr Erica McAlister has agreed to write the Foreword for our #FliesofBritainandIreland to be published Autumn 2025 - the book is moving on apace with the Robberflies pages now laid out Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Steven Falk Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dipterists Forum BBO Wildlife Trust

Some stunning slow worms from our recent reptile tin check, and by the looks of it there may be some little ones on the way! 🐍 📸 Hayley Beck

Collecting wildflower seed at BBO Wildlife Trust Dancersend yesterday but kept being distracted by bees - Ivy Bees getting very excited around one hole in a chalk scrape (I think there must have been a queen inside) & could the others possibly be male Small Scabious Mining Bees A. Marginata?

Wonderful visit last Sunday to BBO Wildlife Trust Yoesden reserve, Radnage, Bucks, to see devil's-bit scabious, it was fabulous. Chilterns National Landscape Chiltern Society Elaine King

The largest of the UK's hairstreaks, the brown hairstreak is an elusive butterfly that spends most of its time either high in the tops of large ash trees or among thick hedges - but our reserves team were treated to a very close view at Gallows Bridge Farm! 🦋 📷 Chloe Bradford

'You could get very sick, dangerously sick from immersion and consuming this water.' Steve Backshall declared ‘the Thames is toxic’ earlier this year after samples were taken from the river close to his home. Steve reveals recent tests found high levels of E. coli in the water.

Planning a nature escape this weekend? We know a few places! 🥾🗺️ Read our six nature reserve recommendations for September: buff.ly/3z2YuYs

Summer winding down doesn't mean less chance to spot some incredible wildlife! 🔎 Here's some species to look out for this September. We'd love to see any photos of what you see out on your adventures!

First time I've seen a Rosemary Beetle (Chrysolina americana) on Lavender in our back garden in Oxford - beautiful metallic leaf beetle. Just submitted the record to the The RHS Rosemary Beetle Survey BBO Wildlife Trust Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

A really stunning moth. Burnished Brass (Diachrysia chrysitis). Seen today during the conservation work-party BBO Wildlife Trust Dancersend Reserve. Mick Jones BC Upper Thames

This week is national #RememberACharityWeek. Will you make a wild promise for the future by leaving a gift in your Will to BBOWT? Protect the wildlife you love. For more information, visit: buff.ly/3Th7OyK