Making a Buzz for the Coast

Official twitter feed for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust's project: restoring & creating habitat for Kent’s wild bees, with a focus on the Shrill carder bee

[Making a Buzz for the Coast @BuzzingCoast]

It’s our last day for the project! Thank you to everyone for following us, retweeting & to our #volunteers, partners & funders #KentCoast @HeritageFundUK @KentWildlife @Kent_cc @NaturalEngland @Natures_Voice @SwaleCouncil @thameswater @ThanetCouncil 🐝

[Making a Buzz for the Coast @BuzzingCoast]

Although this project has come to an end, we still have some fabulous projects spanning the Kent coastline 🌊 So, please follow @BumblebeeTrust @nikkigammans & our new dedicated @BuzzingShrill account🐝 #BeeTheChange #bumblebee #KentCoast #Shrillcarderbee

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

What do bumblebees, otters and a narrowboat have in common? 🐝🦦⛵ The answer is. . . our Senior Development Officer, Michael Rogers! Read Michael's new monthly blog series, 'A Bee Home Aboard' here: https://t.co/HEVCHf22ly

[Maria Himsworth @HimsworthM]

A beautiful Bufftailed bumblebee queen getting ‘stuck in’ to the Iris retuculata in the garden today. @BumblebeeTrust

[Bex @Bex_Cartwright]

First #bumblebee of the yr & not the species I would expect to see yet! A beautiful Southern cuckoo bee (Bombus vestalis). Check out her hairy hind leg, this area would be shiny & hairless (apart from long stiff outer hairs) in her host the buff-tailed bumblebee. @BumblebeeTrust

[Linda Ford - SCCGG @sandowncastle1]

Beautiful crocus in the grass at our community garden. @KentWildlife @RHSBloom @CultivationSt Thanks to @BumblebeeTrust @Bex_Cartwright

[Bex @Bex_Cartwright]

They look beautiful. Great to see them in flower, thank you! @BuzzingCoast

[Back from the Brink @NatureBftB]

Paint a Pebble and Post it!
(But not through next door's letterbox 😲 )

Go positively pebble potty! - tweet us your painted (or decorated) pebbles using #ArtofSavingSpecies - they could be featured on our gallery 🎨

For inspiration 👉 https://t.co/dDA0TbS9ko

#FridayMorning

[Making a Buzz for the Coast @BuzzingCoast]

We love pebble painting 🐝🎨
Here are some we made with the help of volunteers to celebrate a previous World Bee Day! Using the humble bumble as our muse.
What do you think @NatureBftB? #ArtofSavingSpecies

#fridaymorning #FridayFeeling #Makingabuzz @BumblebeeTrust

[Buzzing Cornwall @BuzzingCornwall]

#bumblebee #conservation #zoom #talk #foweyvalley #project

[Rebel Scum (it's not the years, it's the mileage) @TimGardiner3]

you're a big #bee but you're in bad shape, with me it's a full time job, now bee-have! The Get Carder #seawall #bumblebee chapter has appeared online early! @BumblebeeTrust @perkins58 #bees #pollinators @DominicCoath @BarnabySmithUK https://t.co/Wd8ilUJS4C

[Kate Fidczuk-Sterry @kate_zofia]

A spontaneous excursion to search for blackberries after a bumblebee ID session at Riverside Country Park. Got caught in what felt like a monsoon 🌊 hardly collected any fruit but had a glorious late summer afternoon! Dreaming of that heat right now ☀️

[Kate Fidczuk-Sterry @kate_zofia]

Today marks the start of my last week as part of the @BuzzingCoast team 😓 Excited to start something new but I loved working on this project so intensely! Here are some of my fave moments from the last 3 years 🐝 starting the main event - spending my days with the shrill carder

[Bex @Bex_Cartwright]

@BBCSpringwatch @ElmleyNNR @rich_tv Wonderful place. The Isle of Sheppey is also home to the distinctive Shrill Carder Bee, one of our rarest #bumblebees. One to look out for in the summer months.

[Dan Tuson @kentdowns6]

The first in a series, showcasing our @naturalengland landscape scale projects in east kent, working 1-1 long term with farmers to build nature recovery networks based on large scale species-diverse grassland creation. Farmers delivering nature recovery👍https://t.co/rFvawgxRWS

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

British Bees on Flickr just updated: https://t.co/3fSPJYREeE Provides photos & species accounts for EVERY British bee species incl' about a dozen additions to my 2015 Field Guide. Just keep clicking & exploring (works best on a PC or laptop but can still act like a phone app).

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Join our virtual event next Tuesday!
Each month we're joined by special guests to chat about some of the important issues relating to wildlife. This month it's all about the recent government authorisation of a neonicotinoid to treat sugar beet. 👇🐝
https://t.co/o4r4s2uPem

[Making a Buzz for the Coast @BuzzingCoast]

Continuing our celebrations of Kent's Neighbourhood with the Best Buzz awarded to Faversham - we are teaming up with @KentWildlife for a Wildlife Gardeners' Question Time! 🐝🌻
Click for more info and how to register: https://t.co/suGbTWjFF6

@BumblebeeTrust @HeritageFundL_S

[Making a Buzz for the Coast @BuzzingCoast]

We are!!! 🙋‍♀️🐝😍

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

Thank you to Andy Jones for sharing this beautiful photo of a Tree #bumblebee. Who else is looking forward to bumblebee season? #Fridayfeeling #beekind #beethechange #beeobservant

[The Fifth Continent @5thContinent]

Want to help stop the decline of #bees #butterflies #wildflowers #birds which share #RomneyMarsh with us?
We want to hear from local people willing to record #wildlife. Interested? Contact Tobias on 07568 428365 or [email protected]
#biodiversity #climatescience