Saving the small things that run the planetDespite having been proven to be massively harmful to wildlife, Defra has capitulated to an NFU request to use neonicotinoid insecticides on Sugar beet seeds in 2021. Neonicotinoids are known...
08/01/2021
We’re familiar with Christmas robins, reindeer, even penguins, but what about a Christmas ant? Bringing some seasonal cheer to a grim year is some big news about a tiny creature,...
06/01/2021
This week, conservation charity Buglife are launching a complete B-Lines map for Scotland. B-Lines is our response to the decline of bees and other pollinating insects, a plan for how...
10/12/2020
Buglife’s “Severn B-Lines” project is one of the first environmental projects awarded a grant from the government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund. Defra announced grants between £62,000 and £3.8...
10/12/2020
In January of this year the UK Government belatedly published the list of endangered species in the UK a list that had remained unpublished for almost six years. And now...
30/11/2020
Researchers at the University of Sussex have found widespread contamination of English rivers with two neurotoxic pesticides commonly used in veterinary flea products: fipronil and the neonicotinoid imidacloprid. The concentrations...
17/11/2020
Buglife Cymru has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to deliver an exciting heritage project – Neath Port Talbot’s B-Lines. During this three year project we will work closely...
05/11/2020
Mae Buglife Cymru wedi derbyn grant gan Gronfa Dreftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol i drosglwyddo prosiect treftadaeth cyffrous – B-Lines Castell-nedd Port Talbot. Yn ystod y prosiect tair blynedd o hyd...
05/11/2020
The winners have been announced in the Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020, in association with Europe’s leading invertebrate charity, Buglife. [For a quick overview of the winning images: Bug Awards Winners,...
21/10/2020
Rock-rose Pot Beetles, one of England’s rarest beetles, have been found in record numbers and been rediscovered on a historical site Record numbers of Rock-rose Pot Beetles have been found...
01/09/2020
