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10 Aug 2017

Lost & Found Meadow 2017

posted in: Bees, Biodiversity, Meadow, Prof Dave Goulson, Wild Flowers | 0

In celebration of #NatonalMeadowsDay on July 1st we posted some images of the 5th year of flowering in the Lost & Found Meadow – we’ve just added to these with some late flowering knapweeds, field scabious and cranesbill. There is … Read More

bumblebees, dave goulson, Lost & Found Meadow
4 Jul 2017

Air Bee n’ Bee in a Phone Box

posted in: Bees, Biodiversity, Food, Science | 0

Air Bee n’ Bee is a Citizen Science project devised by The Buzz Club, a new charity led by Professor Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex, to assist scientists to collect research data on pollinators. Air Bee n’ Bee aims to encourage people to … Read More

bumblebees, dave goulson, Honey bee, pollinators, Solitary bee
26 Jul 2016

Lost & Found Meadow 2016

posted in: Bees, Biodiversity, Meadow, Prof Dave Goulson, Weeds, Wild Flowers | 0

2016 marks the 4th flowering of the Lost & Found mini meadow and some changes are needed. Knapweeds and Common Vetch now dominate so we need to cut earlier to encourage more diversity. So even though there are still lots of beautiful … Read More

bumblebees, butterflies, dave goulson, pollinators
10 Oct 2015

Soil Flowers & Neonics

posted in: Bees, Biodiversity, Farming, Neonicotinoids | 0

An important study by Dr Cristina Botías et al, has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology on the levels of contamination of neonicotinoid pesticides in the UK countryside.  It has serious implications for agri-environmental schemes in Britain … Read More

Brighton, Broken Spoke, bumblebees
9 Mar 2015

Bike Seats & Beeswax

posted in: Art, Bees, Biodiversity, Consumerism, Craft, Cycling, Meadow, Prof Dave Goulson | 0

Cycling may be the greenest form of transport but like most activities it attracts it’s share of junk products.  One such is the cycle seat cover, made from plastic or nylon, and used to advertise every kind of brand – pizza, jeans, noodles, … Read More

bumblebees, Sewing, Sustainable
12 Apr 2014

Bombus!

posted in: Bees, Biodiversity, Museum, Prof Dave Goulson | 0

Jane King has been photographing the collection of UK bumblebee species – 27 in all –  at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), for Lost & Found. Some of the specimens are very old, dating from the 19th and … Read More

bumblebees, dave goulson, extinct, OUMNH

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