Buglife Cymru’s first Species Champion, Rebecca Evans AM, visited the Gower last week in search of the Black oil beetle. The WEL Species Champions initiative asks Assembly Members to lend...
17/05/2017
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Boston Bee Party
Local company and charity in partnership to save the small things that run the planet Lincolnshire’s Boston Seeds has donated £1,500 to Peterborough based charity Buglife, to aid their...
17/05/2017
NORTHERN POWERGRID TO GET ‘BUZZY’ HELPING MAKE B-LINES
Northern Powergrid, the company responsible for keeping the lights on for 8 million customers across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, is set to help wildlife charity Buglife create...
16/05/2017
New project launched to save Scotland’s rarest insects
A new project is being launched in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park to save six of Scotland’s rarest invertebrates. The shining guest ant, dark bordered beauty moth, small...
09/05/2017
Black bee-fly found in UK for first time
Buglife member, Rob Mills, has photographed a spectacular Black Bee-fly, never before seen in Britain sitting on a bee hotel in his garden near Cambridge. The scientific name Anthrax anthrax...
10/04/2017
Bug Champions the search begins
Buglife is launching a new volunteer pilot scheme Bug Champions. This project is a pilot created to engage the people of Cambridgeshire with the invertebrates around them. This ambitious new...
10/04/2017
Join the Hunt for Amazing Oil Beetles in Wales
Members of the public are being asked to help with the first ever Wales-wide survey to map the location of our threatened and beautiful oil beetles. The survey is being...
06/04/2017
Huge public backing for councils to reduce grass-cutting to help save our bees
· Reducing grass-cutting saves money for cash-strapped councils · Nearly two thirds (63%) of public say councils should be doing more to help protect our bees · Buglife and Friends...
04/04/2017
National Lottery backs ambitious plan to save twenty species threatened with extinction
A further 200 species, including long-eared bat, pine marten, willow tit and lesser butterfly orchid will be brought Back from the Brink In one of the most ambitious conservation projects...
29/03/2017
PotWatch – can you trump Obama?
Buglife are launching a new campaign to highlight the role the importation of pot plants plays in establishing invasive species in the UK. To look into this threat, Buglife have...
27/03/2017
