Happy #WorldBeeDay! Enjoying a few moments in our fabulous wildflower meadows surrounding the buildings at work UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford. In just 3-4 years, packed with yellow rattle, buttercup, red clover, oxeye daisy and more. Mown paths providing bare soil for nesting solitary bees

UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme featured on Farming Today BBC Radio 4 Thanks to all the landowners allowing us access for #pollinator surveys and to volunteers submitting data! Find out more ukpoms.org.uk/home and look out for our Annual report 2023 coming v soon! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🐝🦋🪰 On Farming Today, Dr Claire Carvell explains how taking part in UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme is helping to tell us how our #pollinators are faring over time ⤵️ 🎙️ Hear more from Claire this week in our next podcast episode! #VolunteersWeek #CitizenScience Claire Carvell

🎙️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘇𝘇: 𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬 🐝🪰🦋🪲 It’s not just bees. Flies and moths are key pollinators too. Discover what the number means in our new podcast episode, out tomorrow!✨ Search for Counting the Earth 📲 Sue Nelson RHS Garden Wisley UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

Such fun recording this podcast with the lovely Sue Nelson in UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology wildflower meadows. Thanks to RHS Garden Wisley for taking part and embracing UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme #FITcounts! #volunteersweek podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cou…

Our new 2023 annual report is available on the PoMS website ukpoms.org.uk/reports - survey news and results, hidden secrets found with DNA barcoding, volunteering views and more on #pollinators. Thanks to all contributors and our brilliant survey participants #VolunteersWeek

If you've enjoyed our new annual report ukpoms.org.uk/reports or listened to the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology pollinator podcast audioboom.com/posts/8517522-… please do keep in touch by subscribing to our e-newsletter, the latest edition of which went out today ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe

Bee inspired! Heard our latest podcast episode and want to help monitor pollinators? 🐝🪲🦋 Download the FIT Count app and spend 10 minutes watching flowers and insects in good weather! 📲 buff.ly/3KwilSb #pollinators UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

Every year we allow the bramble from next door to wind through our patio trellis. This year it’s reached up & is covered in flowers & bees, had to stand on a chair for this #FITcount! The flies are happy with the oxeye daisies too, though a little quiet today #LetItBloomJune

We’re going to #Groundswell2024 this week! Drop by our stand to discover how our science & tools are helping farmers yield benefits for biodiversity, climate, soil health & crop production 🪲🌽🌱🚜 Visit us on Stand DFB31 Groundswell ➡️ groundswellag.com

The #TUKFS #foodsystemspf UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology panel session @groundswellaguk is about to start. Sharing insights on how to make research work in practice for regen ag

At #Groundswell2024 today? Visit our stand DFB31 at 2pm where Dr Jenna Lawson will demo our AMI-system, exciting new tech that enables automated monitoring of #biodiversity 🦋 📷Photo of one in use on farmland in Northants! #Groundswell #SustainableAgriculture

A big thank you to everyone who connected with us at #Groundswell2024! Whether we discussed our free e-tools for environmental decisions, the AMI system for biodiversity monitoring, #AgZeroPlus, or pollinator surveys for UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, we appreciate your interest!🌱🦋🚜

Thanks to everyone who joined the Biodiversity Bimbles Groundswell with ADAS Buglife Bumblebee Conservation Trust and UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology exploring insect diversity in the margins and flower mixes. A great way to celebrate Insect Week. More on #FITCounts here! ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

A little more sunshine today for a lovely lunchtime #FITCount and welcome distraction from the news! Solitary bees diving into the knapweed flowers, bumblebees moving between these and the nearby buddleja UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

Read our latest newsletter on FIT Counts + events for #BeesNeedsWeek & other #pollinators mailchi.mp/78065d532463/u…, & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/index.php/subs…. Take part in FIT Count surveys and help gather data to inform current concerns over insect numbers ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Wonderful couple of days with Helen Bostock and the lovely staff and volunteers at RHS Bridgewater and RHS Harlow Carr talking #plants and #pollinators! Despite the grey skies we managed a few UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme FIT Counts 🐝🌼🪰 #BeesNeedsWeek UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

It started with a freakishly insect-free dinner in Sicily. Back in the UK, I wanted to find out more. Is this the #insectapocalypse? 🦋🐞🪳🪲🐜🪰🦗🦟 Where have all the insects gone? via ⁦Financial Times⁩ on.ft.com/4dytDlv

It started with a freakishly insect-free dinner in Sicily. Back in the UK, I wanted to find out more and wrote about it. Is this the #insectapocalypse? 🦋🐞🪳🪲🐜🪰🦗🦟 Where have all the insects gone? via Financial Times Where have all the insects gone? via Financial Times on.ft.com/4dZrvmR

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