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A Little Reason

We should all help the under-funded and unheralded science based projects and NGOs who continue to work quietly away at improving our understanding of the natural world around us.

A Little Reason

We should all help the under-funded and unheralded science based projects and NGOs who continue to work quietly away at improving our understanding of the natural world around us.

Plants for Bugs

Plants for Bugs

Last week the RHS published the first paper from its "Plants for Bugs" four-year study in the Journal of Applied Ecology. It's an interesting read, not least because so little...

Plants for Bugs

Last week the RHS published the first paper from its "Plants for Bugs" four-year study in the Journal of Applied Ecology. It's an interesting read, not least because so little...

A Bad Week for Bees and Solar

It has been a bad week at Habitat Aid's HQ. The spending axe has fallen - again - on renewables - which has effectively now halted the building of any...

A Bad Week for Bees and Solar

It has been a bad week at Habitat Aid's HQ. The spending axe has fallen - again - on renewables - which has effectively now halted the building of any...

Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)

Viper's Bugloss is one of my favourite British wildflowers. It looks like a kind of poor man's Delphinium, but flowers for ever and it's just great for bees. It's not...

Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)

Viper's Bugloss is one of my favourite British wildflowers. It looks like a kind of poor man's Delphinium, but flowers for ever and it's just great for bees. It's not...

Solitary Bees

I empathise with solitary bees. When we think bee I guess we tend to think of honey bees - the one species of truly social bee we have. They chat...

Solitary Bees

I empathise with solitary bees. When we think bee I guess we tend to think of honey bees - the one species of truly social bee we have. They chat...

Breakfast!

As you'd expect, we have lots of goodies around the garden for bees at this time of year. I'd already seen my honeybees on the crocuses and today - great...

Breakfast!

As you'd expect, we have lots of goodies around the garden for bees at this time of year. I'd already seen my honeybees on the crocuses and today - great...