Buglife Scotland

Scotland supports a diverse variety of habitats from montane, to vegetated shingle, to grassland. These habitats are home to a number of unique species of invertebrate, many of which rely on Scotland as their stronghold in the UK and even globally. There are thought to be over 24,000 species of invertebrate in Scotland!

Buglife has achieved many successes in Scotland so far, including:

• the development and implementation of ‘A Strategy for Scottish Invertebrate Conservation’;
• rediscovering rare species and finding new species, including, the Bordered Brown Lacewing rediscovered at Holyrood Park and Bridge of Muchalls, Pond Mud Snail at a pond in Falkirk and at Red Moss at Balerno, the Ten-spotted Pot Beetle at Black Wood of Rannoch, and more;
• mapping our first Scottish B-Lines along the John Muir Way;
• restoring and protecting over 210 hectare of rare lowland raised bog habitat in Slamannan;
• running citizen science surveys for oil beetles, glow worms, wood ants and more;
• helping to develop and deliver the Scottish Pollinator Strategy;
• saving the wonderful Aucheninnes Moss from development;
• And many more!

Buglife have a very important job in protecting our invertebrates and by working with partners we are proud of what we have achieved so far. It is important that we all work together to protect Scotland’s invertebrates as they are incredibly important to our economy, providing us with a number of important and free ‘‘ecosystem services’’ that are often worth millions of pounds e.g. pollination and the creation of healthy soils. Many of these services are often overlooked until they are damaged or lost and they are usually impossible to replace.

 Our projects in Scotland

Buglife delivers a variety of projects to ensure the long-term survival of invertebrates in Scotland. Our projects have created, enhanced and better managed grasslands, peat bogs, brownfield sites and many other habitats for invertebrates in Scotland. Through our project work we have engaged with thousands of people through talks, workshops, bug walks, school visits and other events to raise awareness of the importance of invertebrates, the free services they provide and how we can all do our bit to help them.

Buglife Scotland send out a quarterly newsletter with updates on exciting new stories, events, talks and volunteering opportunities in Scotland. E-mail [email protected] to be added to the mailing list.