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Kat Dahl @wildkatdahl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Especially pleased to see my first Early Bumblebee of the year amongst all the Buff-taileds yesterday. #spring #earlybumblebee #bombuspratorum #britishbees #bugsky @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @bumblebeegill.bsky.social

Early Bumblebee queen on pink heather flowers.

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What an incredible photo, thank you so much for sharing 🧡

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We’ve landed on Bluesky! 🐝 Follow us for the latest #bumblebee facts, project news and conservation updates 💙 Let’s get buzzing – say hi and tell us why you love bumblebees 👇

Two Buff-tailed bumblebees feeding on a sunflower.

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Did you know there is no dedicated team or person in Defra for grasslands, despite them covering 40% of England? 🤯 We're joining @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & partners in calling for the Gov to establish a Grassland Taskforce to unlock their value 🌱 Learn more: www.plantlife.org.uk/our-work/the...

An image of a grassland with the text: "Grasslands store carbon, produce food and support our wildlife. But the UK Government has no strategic plan for them."

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨 The latest findings from #BeeWalk, our national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔 Read on: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/british-bumb...

A bumblebee dusted in yellow pollen sitting in a greyed-out flower. Text reads: 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Let's pretend it's July 7th instead January 7th. A hot summer day with a small metallic green sweat bee on the Bee Balm in my garden! #invertebrates #NativePlants #FallBack #FallBackFlowers 🌿

A small shiny green bee clings to one section of a cluster of red trumpet shaped flowers

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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

January snow squall on the moors of South Uist, Outer Hebrides. Silver crystalline light and a biting northerly wind Watercolour on Two Rivers paper 300x200mm #SouthUist #OuterHebrides #Watercolour #Watercolor #Landscapepainting

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Devon Subtropical Garden @devonsubtropical.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A bit of homework today. We have a couple of talks coming up and though I had a winter shot of the hardy banana bed (musa rajapuri, musa ‘Helen’& a good form of musa sikkimensis) I had no summer shots, then I checked videos and found this flamboyant performance from August! 🌱

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Pulmonaria blue ensign just beginning to flower in the polytunnel. #plantsforpollinators

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Gill Perkins @bumblebeegill.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas to all lovers of bumblebees…..well ok everyone then, because you might all have a bumblebee in your heart one day 🐝

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The first of your #12DaysofFoxmas today - your Christmas #FoxOfTheDay from @jennyurqhart !

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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

All is Calm All is Bright 🎄🎄🎄

Beach with soft yellow sand, small waves, emerald waters and cloudy sun lighten up skie

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Bee. ‘Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas Movie House. Merry Christmas Emporium. Merry Christmas you wonderful old Building & Loan…’ Merry Christmas George Bailey. To all the George Baileys out there. Sometimes you live your dreams without knowing. #MerryChristmas #bee #goodnight #dream

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A tenuous link to the festivities for today’s post. Merry Christmas all. Turkey Oak, Quercus cerris. Leaves deeply divided with typically 5-8 pairs of lobes. Buds surrounded by long, narrow stipules. Acorn cup covered by narrow, long, spreading scales

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Bee. ‘And goodnight to the street sweepers the night watchman flame keepers and goodnight Matilda, too…’ Dream beyond the wars of men without souls… #bee #goodnight #dream

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

When I stand in this spot I know I'm about to see birds and crabs, maybe some dolphins, feel the wind and hear the waves and get lots of sand in my shoes. Glorious #ArtAdventCalendar 🌿

The sun shines through a cloudy sky over the beach and reflected in the ocean. There's a wood fence in the foreground with opening to walk through to go down to the beach

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Gill Perkins @bumblebeegill.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

A super evening with the incomparable Olly Smith, wine and bumblebees

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beverly parrish🦋📎🌊 @beverlyaparrish.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"People should care, quite frankly. Because if you're silent about injustice, you're giving consent to it." (Mark Konrad)(Photo Credit: Christian Buehner/Pexels) Happy Saturday, y'all.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Bluesky is proving well up to the task of providing helpful & informative Syria coverage. Some amazing footage around. Verification etc can only make things better moving forward.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8 ‘Snowstorm in a Pennine Valley’ Artist: SR Badmin

Mixed media illustration looking down into the snow-covered Pennine Village. The picture is largely monotone. The focal point is the pink walls of an old inn on the bridge.

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Gill Perkins @bumblebeegill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Bumblebees can fly in a straight line even with a 30 mph cross wind…but perhaps not this weekend!

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jtkindt @jtkindt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“Nectar-robbing” is a well-known phenomenon, but a few years ago I saw something a little different- a bumblebee cutting open a trumpetvine (Campsis radicans) flower to retrieve pollen. Does this have a name? #bees #inaturalist #pollination www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

American Bumble Bee in August 2022 by James Kindt. Interesting behavior- American bumble bee cuts open closed trumpetvine flower to get inside. No...

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Absolutely fascinating! Make sure you read the full thread.... Thank you @hcslambert.bsky.social for making this so accessible 🐝🌿🌻 #bumblebees #flowers #insects

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The government is legally required to make the UK net zero by 2050 , but we’re seriously off track to achieving our climate targets . Warmer homes , cheaper energy , better transport , cleaner air and decent green jobs are achievable . . . but we need action . 1/

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🐝Jean Vernon🐝 @thegreenjeanie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I’ve started weaving #festivewreaths & #christmasttees. But the trees look like wings!!! Hmmm. I wonder what I can make that has wings??? I know ….. maybe #bumblebees! 🐝💕🐝. What do you think??

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Paul Williams @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My, what BIG TEETH you have! - the evolution of specialist flower-robbing bumblebees (Alpigenobombus) world-wide - but what are the costs & benefits of nectar robbing for these bees? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A fact about me is that I never get tired of looking at fuzzy bee butts covered in pollen. Also once you see the graceful linebacker utility of our native bees next to tiny imported honeybees you’ll see why they do the heavy lifting in both our veggie & flower beds. #pollinators #bees #gardening 🌱

On the left, a small honeybee with smooth striped backside. One the right, a native bee with a furry butt nearly 10x its size.

A furry bumble with shining folder wings and legs covered in pollen.

Backside view of a furry bumble absolutely plastered with pollen all over its legs, top and bottom.

A top view showing the size discrepancy between the honeybee and native bumble.

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thank you to every single person who interacted with, liked, shared and responded to this thread. I’ll try to get back to everyone over the next day or so but you are few and I am many 🙄 so bear with me! Don’t do hope but this gives me reason at least. Thank you lovely people. #forthebees #bees

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Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Over 90% of farmland in Great Britain is within 1 km of a garden. New paper suggests gardens provide about 15% of overall nectar in southwest UK farm landscapes and fill key nectar gaps for bees in early spring and late summer. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

✊🐝 act.biologicaldiversity.org/8f9Vu18QbkW1...

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Another young #FoxOfTheDay today , shared by Emily Taylor ( @capture_nature_emily_taylor ) on Instagram

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Gill Perkins @bumblebeegill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Lovely to see @kennyhiggs.bsky.social he’s hoping for millions of followers and he is just about worth following - he often mentions bumblebees :)

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

UK supermarkets urged to stop using #neonics and other bee-toxic #pesticides. Call comes as @PAN_UK ranks supermarkets on efforts to protect consumers, farmworkers & wildlife from pesticides. Take action & see where your supermarket ranked: www.pan-uk.org/supermarkets/

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Supermarkets Pesticide Ranking

UK supermarkets are not doing enough to protect human health, wildlife or the environment from pesticides. Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) continue to be used within the global supply chains of all...

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Curlew - by another Scottish artist, Lucy Newton I could look at this painting all day and not tire of it. #birds #birdart #nature

Curlew illustrated in watercolour on smudged watercolour rocks

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Dusty Gedge @dustygedge.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Oh be great 😊 if you can promote this video I did re this great book - Walking and talking Hairy-foots and other #bees with David Perkins #blackheath #naturediaries youtu.be/nLgS5-7p02Q

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Walking and talking Hairy-foots and other #bees with David Perkins #blackheath #naturediaries

YouTube video by Dusty Gedge

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Gill Perkins @bumblebeegill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I shall miss these furry friends over winter

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Deborah Meaden @deborahmeaden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And then… as if to prove the point 💙 #bluesky

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

3.31pm. I’ll take that. Thank you very much. Any day of the week. Hang on…it’s #Friday day of the week. It’s Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #gentle. Be #kind. Be #true. Be like #bees. Drag them up. Don’t let them pull you down. A smile not a frown. Go easy.

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Another gorgeous Woodcock painting 'Woodcock Moon' - by wildlife artist, Owen Williams #birds #moon #fullmoon #supermoon #woodcockmoon #art #nature

Woodcock flying above bare branches, and beneath a golden Supermoon, at dusk

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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

What an interesting & inspiring time I had yesterday at Spains Hall in Essex, where farmer Archie is building a new farming business with Nature recovery at its very core. This includes three sets of Beaver wetlands, where wildlife is coming back while reducing flood risk in the downstream village.

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Peter Graystock @pgraystock.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

There's just something about bee mites that makes me feel uneasy! anyway - here's a picture of some poor bees at the end of a field experiment we ran (we hadn't considered mites in the design but they became an interesting part of the study!). Its amazing how many mites a single bee can carry!

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