🍏 🍎 FruitWatch are looking for anyone in Somerset growing fruit trees to input their data about when these trees flower. This helps monitor any impacts of climate change on this process. If you have a spare 5 minutes to get involved please visit: orlo.uk/u6G7c

As we near 5,000 records and blossom season is in full swing, here is a look at where and when blossom was recorded across the country. If you've got an apple, pear, cherry or plum tree and want to record its blossom progress it's not too late! Head to fruitwatch.org!

The area occupied by fruit trees has fallen by 97 per cent in London and by half UK-wide since 1900. But The Orchard Project is on a mission to bring nature's food banks back to our cities: thetimes.co.uk/article/the-or…

This is what bee research looks like - amazing field work review day with #Jorisbee SAPD at Reading Uni Uni of Reading Deepa Senapathi (she/her) The World Bee Project CIC FruitWatch Chris Wyver - Oracle for Research so proud to be a partner in 4 really interesting projects. #ClimateCrisis #pollinators

Calling all nature lovers. Have you heard of citizen science projects? It’s where members of the public help conservation organisations collect data to help monitor and protect wildlife.

FruitWatch wants to track flowering dates of fruit trees across the UK. If you see an apple, pear, cherry or plum tree in bloom, upload a record to fruitwatch.org to help understand how climate impacts blossom.

Despite the winds its all kicking off with blossom time 🥰FruitWatch my Plum tree recorded this morning - please see fruitwatch.org/ords/r/livefw/… to add your trees Oracle AI Database #techology powering #citizenscience Oracle for Research supporting Chris Wyver Uni of Reading

Got very excited about 1st flowers open on my apple tree so entered it in FruitWatch (PhD Project of Chris Wyver) Looking at results seems to be only apple flowering in eastern England! Come on, that surely can't be true. Join in if you can! Here: fruitwatch.org

So, FruitWatch, Chris Wyver my apples 🍎 seem ahead on the flowering 🌸than my edible cherry🍒 Though cherry tree has had more leaves than flowers this year. Wonder what's going on with their #phenology 🤔 #citizenscientists please add your records to fruitwatch.org

Do you monitor species or habitats? If so, get involved in this cool research and have your say on how technology can help or hinder!!

Rising temperatures are causing #bees to emerge earlier, but what about blossom of the fruit trees they pollinate? Thats what we are hoping to find out thanks to your blossom submissions at fruitwatch.org! Stay tuned to see what we find! 🐝🌸🍏🍐

Around the world in 20 pears. We have 30 varieties of pears, the collage only allowed for 20 but how amazingly diverse! I love this!!

People seemed to like the pear collage. So thought I'd add these. These are 31 of our 153 varieties of apples. I had plans to take a photo of every single one, but it's hard to keep on top of thst in the height of the season. I'll try again next year.

We've been hard at work improving FruitWatch for 2024: New fruits 🍐, new maps 🗺️ and an improved recording form 📋! More details coming soon, so watch this space!! 👀 Get invovled at fruitwatch.org #blossom #nature

Apple buds are starting to waken from dormancy, so I thought it might be a good time to re-post my photo-series showing the growth and development of a single 'Herefordshire Russet': 'Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit' orchardnotes.com/2023/03/28/lif…

My apple & cherry trees are starting to #blossom. If you have fruit trees, please take a few minutes to upload records to FruitWatch. It helps us Uni of Reading & Oracle for Research track #climatechange impacts on flowering #phenology Connecting Research SAPD at Reading Uni UoR BioSci