"How much habitat is enough?" Our final guiding principle. Evidence suggests that managing 5 to 10% of land in the right way can make a huge difference for #FarmWildlife. Trick is working out what's best for your farmland - our 6 key actions can help: farmwildlife.info/how-to-do-it/

We planted this new hedge 9 years ago and are delighted that this week the laying has started! I’m loving seeing it done and know I’m not alone - good for the hedge, the wildlife, the farm and the soul!

We've carried out lots of green hay spreading during West Country Buzz - find out what green hay is and how it helps bumblebees with our short video👇 youtube.com/watch?v=eKqauA… A quick guide to green hay (youtube.com) Bumblebee Conservation Trust

We partnered with Newham London 💙 to create a Wild Bee Garden, one of four feature areas in a new pollinator trail along the length of the Greenway 🐝🌷 Bex Cartwright, Conservation Projects Manager, tells us how this thriving habitat was created. bumblebeeconservation.org/a-new-wild-bee…

We are looking for a Senior Partnerships Officer 🐝 🕒 Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent position 📍 Home-based 📅 5pm Friday 1 March 2024 Full details 👉🏿 ow.ly/XWPx50Qx684

Closing soon: Kent’s Plan Bee Project Officer As part of the conservation team, you will lead on the delivery of Kent’s Plan Bee, the pollinator action plan for Kent County Council. 🕒Part-time, fixed term 📍Field/home-based 📅26 February Full details👉🏼ow.ly/TCgt50Qvr69

We are looking for a Senior Land Management Advisor to play a vital role in enhancing bumblebee habitat through our land management consultancy work 🐝 🕒 Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent position 📍 Home-based 📅 Monday 4 March Full details 👉🏾 ow.ly/7Mv050Qybpj

We are looking for a Land Management Advisor to join the conservation team and to play a vital role in enhancing bumblebee habitat through our land management consultancy work 🐝 🕒 Full-time, permanent 📍 Home-based 📅 Monday 4 March Full details 👉🏽 ow.ly/7Mv050Qybpj

We are looking for a Senior Land Management Advisor to play a vital role in enhancing bumblebee habitat through our land management consultancy work 🐝 🕒 Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent position 📍 Home-based 📅 Monday 4 March Full details 👉🏿 ow.ly/7Mv050Qybpj

We need to be strategic about where we plant trees. Rigorous assessments and safeguards are needed to protect important habitats, like flower-rich grasslands from being planted on. Fair incentives will ensure we restore the diversity of habitats that nature depends on. 🧵4/8

Three oil beetles seen over three days. Two Black Oil Beetles (m&f) and today a Violet Oil Beetle (m). Nice to have both species so close to home #OilBeetleHunt OilBeetlesUK

Bumblebee queens are emerging. I keep finding them resting on the ground. Several Early Bumblebees today and yesterday this Heath Bumblebee - Bombus jonellus. Check out the pale hairs on the hind leg. Bumblebee Conservation Trust

As #NoMowMay begins please take a minute to enjoy what can be achieved. Grandfather kept the sides of the drive like a lawn and 20 years of an annual mow rather than a weekly one this is the result (20th April) LEAF Nature Friendly Farming Network Farm Wildlife

#Auroraborealis #NorthernLights from North Wales. Stunning!

We are buzzing to have won a silver-gilt medal for our Diversity is Queen exhibit at #RHSChelsea Flower Show🐝 In partnership with Ground Control , our exhibit showcases various habitats supporting some of our common and scarcest bumblebees🏞️ 🤝Habitat_Aid Flying Flowers

If you've ever wondered just how small Red-necked Phalaropes really are, they're this small ⬇️ Mallard duckling for size comparison...

SHRILL CARDER BEE! We found one! This is Jacqui James, @camZoology researcher, working with farmers, Bumblebee Conservation Trust National Trust & RestPoll on the urgent conservation of this species (Bombus sylvarum), in the most threatened of its 5 surviving UK populations, south Somerset.

Brilliant photos :)

10 a day keeps the doctor away! Bumblebees show remarkable consistency in their foraging breadth, regardless of species, site or season🐝What could be driving this behaviour? More in our new paper: rb.gy/gtrxvp with Natasha de Vere 🇪🇺 Ian Vaughan Laura Jones Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence

This plant is driving me a little nuts. There are several growing in a 20m stretch. Can any helpful botanists shed any light please? Growing on edge of forestry track, acid, dry, rocky area. North Wales. #wildflowerID #wildflowerhour