Your kindness can kill a bumblebee 💔
📢 Please share! Bumblebee queens are starting to emerge from hibernation. British weather isn’t always ideal and people with the best intentions can cause more harm good. Let’s change that.
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Lovely to dip back into my teenage years for this, and to discover so much optimism and energy in the town now. The British seaside at its best.
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#NatureFriendlyFarming is key to a #wilderfuture.
I'm calling on @BritishSugar to help farmers go neonic-free.
👉 Sign @WildlifeTrusts petition now - https://t.co/NSRbVK76d3.
Beet farmers who choose methods that boost nature must be supported. https://t.co/IuwT9wcbqG
These rivers have all tested +ve for thiamethoxam since 2020 (data from Env Agency). This neonicotinoid was banned in Europe in 2018, but is allowed on sugar beet crops in UK. That is its only authorised use. Yet it is turning up in rivers all over the place... Hugely concerning.
@capabilitycharl Great the issue raised & both sides discussed. However wish the BBC & @GWandShows would get off the fence. With all the evidence for the damage it is causing far outweighing the selfish positives RHS banning, environmentalists & NGO’s campaigning for control/ban it’s a no brained
Article on ragwort by @BBCCountryfile fails to mention the very important point that livestock simply don't eat ragwort unless it is dried and made into hay. Ragwort is a beautiful native wildflower and a fantastic resource for pollinators.
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Rowland Wood reserve forms part of the once sprawling 330 hectare ancient Vert Wood in South East England 🦋🌳
Once renowned for the abundance of butterflies and moths found there, we now need your help to restore this important habitat 👉 https://t.co/KQirnJ2sCX
A lovely morning at Medmerry, autumn migration in full swing, Yellow Wagtails, Swallows and Sand Martins featured strongly, 2 Cattle Egrets and 2 Common Sands around too. 9 'cackling' Geese dropped in, Wheatear and Whinchat about too @SussexBirding@SelseyBirder@WildstartsUK
Fancy escaping to Italy for a short-break? Here's my hot weekend tip...
1 x armchair
1 x cup of tea
1 x pack Mcvities Plain Chocolate Digestives (not to all be eaten in one sitting)
1 x copy of The Enemy of Love, now just 99p on Kobo
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