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A flatworm that overwhelms snails in a “gang attack” and has caused many extinctions when introduced to other parts of the world has now arrived in Europe.  Urgent action is...

14/03/2014

Last week Plymouth’s Buzzing visited a new school. Although we are reaching the end of the project, we still managed to buzz across to Yealmpstone Farm Primary School to work...

05/03/2014

Yesterday, Plymouth’s Buzzing flew over to Whitleigh to see the start of our final meadow being sown. Staff from Plymouth City Council Street Scene Services were on hand with their...

05/03/2014

Our countryside is fragmented and populations of many species are confined to widely separated islands. A Government announcement this week confirms that restoring and creating habitat in corridors, so that...

28/02/2014

Plymouth was bathed in spring sunshine this weekend, well for an hour or two. It gave us time to revisit one of our meadow projects. The Family Tree site in...

24/02/2014

Understandably attention has focussed on the plight of people, property and livestock during the recent floods. But what has it been like being a little bug during the recent weather?...

21/02/2014

So concludes the BBC Winter Olympic trailer in tones hinting of a Victorian attitude that nature is a force to be mastered and defeated by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of...

14/02/2014

Buglife believes in fairness and justice.  We believe that having space on the planet for the other species that live here is fair, and we believe that humans have a...

07/02/2014

Plymouth’s Buzzing flew into another school yesterday. 90 children from Foundation and 90 from year 2 of Montpelier Primary School learnt about the plight of pollinators, their importance in food production...

05/02/2014