February brings us closer to the return of bumblebees – you may even be lucky enough to see some this month! 👀 Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring, when rising temperatures and longer days awaken them from their winter snooze in the soil 👑💤 🧵 1/2

On Monday, the Highland Council officially notified ministers that they voted to approve the proposed development at #CoulLinks, despite NatureScot’s objection and a recommendation of refusal from planning officers. 1/4🧵

If you've left dead plants in your garden over the winter, they'll probably have been providing sheltered spots for hibernating ladybirds and lots of other creatures. Please do leave them a while longer until spring is underway 🐞 #wildlife #gardening #nature

New year, new job? 👀 We have six exciting positions in a variety of roles across the country🐝 Make a beeline for our vacancy page for the full details 👉🏽 ow.ly/EJ0r50Qye0g

Come and join us for a free bumblebee beginners course Hands of Hope in Hawkhurst, Kent hohcharity.co.uk Bumblebee Conservation Trust #bumblebee #pollinators #Bee #conservation

Short eared Owl catches a vole but gets buzzed by a Kestrel as it sits on a post in front of a trail cam on the Waveney marshes this week SuffolkWildlifeTrust Suffolk Wildlife Trust North East Reserves

Get ready to nestflix and chill 💞 Next week, celebrate Valentine's Day and #NationalNestBoxWeek! Nothing says I love you quite like building a nest box for a loved one 💚 wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-bu…

We think these bat bricks for new builds are a great example of how innovation and creativity can help wildlife!

How is this doing any good? destroying forest plus transport emissions BBC News - Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

‘Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation.’ My latest book is released into the wild on 28th March. Please track down a copy and join in the discussion about this challenging topic. Should we intervene? Should we kill? Are there alternatives?

This housing development will have around a 100 S-Bricks grouped high up on gables, the gables are grouped together too. The locations are selected where there is a clear line of flight for Swifts to access/egress the S-b. Here are the first ones going in Fiona Judge !

As always, many people asking us about #bumblebees at the moment - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to. Please #retweet. Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year!

Today we are doing the Big Green Hike to raise money for Bumblebee Conservation Trust ! Our team is walking a collective 70 miles along the Kent-East Sussex coastline and in London. Our Just Giving page will be open for a few more days if you would like to donate!

Sabrina Rondeau, PhD Royal Society Publishing School of Environmental Sciences UofGResearch NSERC / CRSNG Arrell Food Institute Weston Family Foundation Raine Lab Prof. Jeff Ollerton - @[email protected] Bumblebee Conservation Trust Dave Goulson Behav Ecol Papers In the experiment we put #bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) queens in soil-filled tubes & compared the survival of bees either maintained underwater or left to float naturally on the water surface for varying durations (8 h, 24 h or 7 days) while remaining in overwintering conditions

Delighted to find one of the three Sussex Emerald Moth caterpillars today at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Thank you Rebecca Levey and Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Nothing to see here, just a chicken Oh, and a thousand year old oak tree in Lincolnshire Photo: Woodland Trust

Pretty much every nature organisation, 350 of them, tens of thousands of scientists, conservationists and growers march through London to tell the UK the manifestos are woefully inadequate to protect nature and us. Unprecedented. BBC News (UK) … nothing 👀

As others have said, cornflower thrown at an ancient monument makes the news, with lots of pearl clutching, but this huge peaceful march by hundreds of thousands of people who know we are killing Nature gets almost no coverage. No wonder Govts won't listen to eco common sense.

Playing with paint and artist books - mailchi.mp/857bfde80221/s…