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National Honeybee Day: What We Need To Know

Dear Journalist Thank you SO much for writing about National Honeybee Day. To declare my interest, as a long time beekeeper, I do love honeybees. The Day was originally an...

Bees And Sugar Water - A Story Of Our Times

What do bees have to do with sugar water? When I was a child I used to rescue bumblebees trapped in the house and plonk them on a flower in...

The Ecological Apocalypse (Again)

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Chris Packham hit the headlines this weekend by announcing that the UK was facing an ecological apocalypse. Yikes. He's right of course, but as apocalypses...

Green Brexit Greenwash - and Some More Cheerful...

I have read a great deal about the government's plans for the environment - a Green Brexit. I have heard Michael Gove speak about it, earlier this year. I read...

Back From The Brink ("BftB")

I popped up to Windsor Great Park yesterday for the launch of a project called "Back From The Brink", or BftB. What a fascinating time I had. Daisy and me...

Tackling Pollinator Declines

All About Bees An interesting day in London last week, at a meeting to discuss the decline in pollinating insects. There were some interesting and highly competent folk there and...