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Cuteism

By Craig Macadam, Buglife's Conservation Director. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. When George Orwell wrote these words in the early 1940s he was...

17/05/2017

A blog from Craig Macadam, Director of Conservation at Buglife Wonderful Wisterias, Heavenly Hellebores, Perfect Primroses, Magnificent Magnolias. Garden centres across the UK are overflowing with new stocks of plants...

27/03/2017

Torbay’s Buzzing Blog January 2017

A lot has been happening with Torbay’s Buzzing over the Autumn and Winter. Wildflower meadow creation Autumn is a great time to sow wildflower meadow areas, so I was very...

06/02/2017

The Discovery of Glowing Woodlice

A guest blog from our partners at the St Helena National Trust The Critically Endangered Spiky yellow woodlouse (Pseudolaureola atlantica), only found on St Helena, has been found to...

24/01/2017

Have you ever wondered what it is like to work on one of the rarest Woodlice

Amy-Jayne Dutton, from Stoke-on-Trent, has recently uprooted from her home comforts to move to the remote island of St Helena, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic… to take...

10/11/2016

Getting a Buzz into Birmingham

A personal perspective from Nick Packham is the Urban Buzz officer for Birmingham, who has been with the project since the start in October 2015. Nick is tasked with creating...

10/11/2016

Pollinator Conservation in Agriculture

By Scott Hoffman Black – Executive Director Xerces Society Recently, conservationists have been discussing the role of agriculture in helping pollinators—and for good reason. About half of the U.S. land...

03/10/2016

Saving St Helena’s Bugs on the Brink: Building the Capability of a Budding Conservationist

Sasha Bargo from St Helena, a UK Overseas Territory situated in the remote South Atlantic, recently joined the RSPB and Buglife on a placement after her time studying her degree...

01/09/2016

Wild Bee Declines and Neonics Case Closed – What next?

A new scientific paper produced by scientists at CEH (UK Government research institute/consultancy) has analysed English bee distribution data from BWARS and pesticide data gathered by Fera. The results are...

17/08/2016

July has been a hive of activity for the Torbay’s Buzzing project

Childrens’ art competition to design a postcard to be attached to wildflower seed packets We ran an art competition open to all primary schools in Torbay. This was to design...

29/07/2016