Latest Blog Posts

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

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

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

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

At first sight marketing bugs could be considered in the same bracket as carrying coals to Newcastle and this is despite the great work done by Buglife. If you poll...

04/07/2016

Well, a lot has been happening recently to get Torbay Buzzing!  I’ve been concentrating on getting some pollinator cafes planted up, launching our Torbay’s Buzzing Big Pollinator Survey; and running...

01/07/2016

Buglife has created the first “Torbay’s Buzzing” wildflower meadow at Stoodley Knowle, Torquay, with help from Torbay Council and local volunteers from the “Friends of Stoodley Knowle” (FoSK). Wildflower seeds...

12/04/2016

Our environment is precious, fragile and in peril. Only by taking more responsibility for our negative impacts on wildlife and investing time, money and resolution into creating and maintaining space...

07/03/2016