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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super proud to have worked on this key paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social It navigates some complex modelling challenges but always a pleasure to collaborate with everyone involved 😊 @francescamancini.bsky.social @drnickisaac.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🐝 🪰 How can we track change across the UK's insect pollinators? A new paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social outlines how we're generating robust metrics to monitor pollinator trends at a national scale. Another key milestone for PoMS! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 1/

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last few days left for your FIT Counts! 😃 If you can find flowers and good weather you can still contribute a #pollinator count - but hurry 👩‍🦽🏃🚴‍♀️ the season ends on Weds 30 September ⏳️

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Definitely feels like wasps that managed to survive the heatwave are now popping up on the Ivy! Got a spare 10 mins? Do a #FITcount for @pomscheme.bsky.social!

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ten days left to do a #FITcount in the 2026 @pomscheme.bsky.social survey season! Been watching lots of Ivy bees on the Ivy flowers on our garden fence. Not as many wasps as I remember from previous years. What’s visiting your Ivy? @waspwoman.bsky.social

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Congratulations on a fantastic award for PoMS team member Nadine! Her garden looks superb and is a paradise for #pollinators - do watch the video to find out more #WildlifeGardening

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The results from this years’ #BigButterflyCount @savebutterflies.bsky.social are out! 👏 With interesting reflections from @richardfoxbc.bsky.social “a good summer for adult butterflies is not the same as a good summer for butterfly populations”

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have you submitted your views on the #DeptofEducation's content for the #NaturalHistoryGCSE? Tomorrow (Friday 4th Sept) is the deadline! Don't delay! The next generation MUST be more nature-literate, to be better stewards of the natural world than us! consult.education.gov.uk/gcse-and-a-l...

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GCSE natural history proposed subject content - Department for Education - Citizen Space

Find and participate in consultations run by the Department for Education

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ivy flowers can attract a wide range of insect visitors, and are one of the target species for our #pollinator FIT Count surveys - plenty of opportunity to carry out a ten-minute count before the end of September! ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts and see the PDF quick guide at ukpoms.org.uk/sites/defaul...

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's certainly going to be interesting to see what effect these unprecedented conditions have had on the wildlife data collected by PoMS and other long-term monitoring schemes

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Well done to @whitmuir1.bsky.social and all the @pomscheme.bsky.social volunteers who are keeping up with their 1km surveys this summer. Please do take care in the extreme temperatures ☀️ Good to see some woodland habitat providing refuge for the insects and surveyors here 🍃

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Many thanks to Andrew and all our other volunteers for keeping our long-term monitoring surveys going during a difficult field season 🙏 Will be fascinating to see what the data shows. Hope you enjoyed the well-earned refreshments!

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Good morning from Groundswell! Getting ready for the Biodiversity Bimble with ADAS, Buglife and @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social. Find us at the Safari Tent 11am or come and talk to the team at the @ukceh.bsky.social stand C36 ☀️

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Had a glorious walk on Martin Down yesterday. Not as many bees as I’d have hoped for but a fabulous show of skylarks, butterflies and flowers. And where else could you have both Marbled White AND Dark Green Fritillary feature in the same #FITCount?! @richardfoxbc.bsky.social @pomscheme.bsky.social

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The results are sobering but it is a big day for @pomscheme.bsky.social with release of our first Official Stats! Huge thanks to the brilliant team at UKCEH who support the scheme, esp @kitenet.bsky.social @francescamancini.bsky.social @robin-hutchinson.bsky.social and Nadine Mitschunas 🤩🐝

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Look out for these Tree bumblebee behaviours this summer 🌳🐝 Have you spotted Tree bumblebees behaving this way before?

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

These patches of Oxeye Daisy are almost completely self-seeded on my lawn and now perfect height for a standing #FITCount! Had a few nice solitary bees and hoverflies in amongst the pollen beetles (classed as small insects <3mm) in today’s count @pomscheme.bsky.social

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Lots of fresh male bumblebees visiting my garden Salvia on today’s @pomscheme.bsky.social FIT Count (moving too fast to photograph!) but also a couple of small solitary bees and a lovely ladybird that I wouldn’t have noticed had I not been doing the count 😊

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Just warm enough on this sunny glade at the #EarthTrust for a @pomscheme.bsky.social #FITcount on Hawthorn. 14 insects visited in the 10 minutes, accompanied by a chorus of Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Cuckoo ❤️

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Coming through! These bumblebees are on an important mission 🐝💨 💼 Around now, newly hatched workers are taking over a crucial role previously carried out by their queen: collecting pollen and nectar from flowers. 🐛 This supply of pollen will help feed larvae and support the queen to lay more eggs.

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks to Guy Singh-Watson for including FIT Counts in the latest newsletter from Riverford, describing the counts as "a welcome opportunity to slow down and take in the natural world". Read the full article at wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/news...

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Despite the cool temperature today, bees were enjoying the Hawthorn flowers. Hawthorn is one of the FIT Count target flowers - read more at ukpoms.org.uk/hurray-for-h...

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Miranda Bane @buzzscience.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Had the opportunity to test the new FIT Count quick guide I helped write for @pomscheme.bsky.social with some brilliant volunteers from @tcvnational.bsky.social and West Dumbartonshire Council. Perfect weather for counting pollinators!

Two people watching a quatrat on a hawthorn bush

A group of people carrying out FIT counts in an old play park

A person with their clipboard watching a quadrat

A group of people gathered around in the sunshine learning about pollinators.

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

No Mow May 👍 = more flowers for pollinators 🌼🐝 = more opportunities for FIT Counts 😄 ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New citizen science initiative launched 🎉 Anyone in the UK can join in by registering their garden and recording the wildlife they see using established apps (FIT Count, iRecord Butterflies or iRecord) More info: ngs.org.uk/the-big-brit... Register today: esurveyor.ceh.ac.uk/national-gar...

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

NEW: a "Quick Guide" to FIT Counts (pdf) is now available from the PoMS website, providing a summary of how to do the counts and how to recognise the insect groups. This is a welcome addition to our more detailed guides, which are of course still available as well! ukpoms.org.uk/news/quick-g...

Images of the two pages of the new Quick Guide to Flower-Insect Timed Counts - the first page outlines the FIT Count method, and the second page provides tips on recognising the insect groups that we ask you to count

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Great to catch up with so many of our brilliant volunteers at last night's 1 km square survey webinar - almost 2,000 days of survey visits since we started! A few squares still available to adopt - if you live near a red square & want to know more please get in touch ukpoms.org.uk/contact

Map of the UK showing approximate locations of PoMS 1 km squares, colour coded with red squares not yet adopted by a surveyor

Part of last night's webinar for out 1 km square volunteers, with a bar chart showing the number of days of survey visits each year, and some photos of surveyors and survey kit in action. There have been 1,999 days of survey visits to PoMS squares since we started in 2017 (276 days in 2025 alone).

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today’s weather looking very promising for lunchtime #FITcounts at @pomscheme.bsky.social HQ, having been just below thresholds so far this week 🤞☀️🐝

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

As PoMS approaches its tenth year of monitoring #pollinators it is awesome to see what has been achieved by @ukbms.bsky.social, its partners and many, many volunteers over the last 50 years, and also sobering to see how many species have declined in that time

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

14 degrees, clear blue sky, glorious Dandelions on the lawn = perfect conditions for my first #FITcount of 2026 😊 @pomscheme.bsky.social

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Welcome to the new season for #pollinator FIT Counts! Our latest e-news was sent out this morning - read it here mailchi.mp/7e658beeba40... and subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe As soon as the weather is warm enough we hope that you will enjoy watching and counting insects on flowers with us.

Two people carrying out a FIT Count in a flowery meadow, using a quadrat made out of tape to mark out the target flowers for the count. One person is using the FIT Count app, the other has a paper recording form on a clipboard.

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As well as the FIT Count survey, we run a more systematic survey using insect traps in a set of 1 km squares across the UK. If you live near one of the red squares on the map and are interested in taking part please contact us for more details ukpoms.org.uk/one-km-squar...

Map of the UK showing the approximate location of the PoMS 1 km survey squares, and which ones are available for 'adoption' to carry out pollinator surveys

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

There's less than a month until the start of the 2026 FIT Count season on 1 April! The Flower-Insect Timed Count survey asks you to spend 10 minutes counting all insects that land on a patch of flowers, to help monitor abundance of #pollinators. 🪰🦋🌻🪲🐝 More info at ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Happy New Year from the PoMS team! Incase you missed our December newsletter, find it here including: 📊 updates on 2025 surveys 🌼 FIT Count projects (now is the perfect time to sign up for 2026) 🪰🐝🐞 links to a great series of past & upcoming #pollinator themed webinars! mailchi.mp/39d2be14e1f2...

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A record-breaking year for FIT Counts - thank you!

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Don’t miss the brilliant John Redhead today at #ORFC2026 talking about future crops and @ukceh.bsky.social rice trials from the #agzeroplus programme. Great to hear conference manager Hester van Hensbergen looking forward to this on R4 #FarmingToday ⬇️

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Horizon scanning is a successful, low-cost way to predict high risk invasive non-native species, a UKCEH-led study shows. 31 of 92 species identified in 2013 as a potential threat had reached GB by 2023, with 9 established. Regular horizon scanning can guide action & improve biosecurity. 🧪 1/

Map showing the native range of the 31 species that arrived in Great Britain since 2013. The strength of shading in the boxes indicates the number of species to have arrived from this native range.

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Exciting NEW PhD just advertised, using @pomscheme.bsky.social data - full details here! ⬇️🐝🪰🐞

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Springline Project - a unique collaboration between ecologists, artists and local communities to create this stunning 10-metre mural that we revealed to a packed audience in Cholsey on Friday! Thank you to everyone who made this happen #MendtheGap @annadillon.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

What an amazing legacy from the Cholsey Springline project! Glad to have been there for the unveiling and to talk to people about Berkshire #moths from the project's events. Huge congratulations to @clairecarvell.bsky.social @annadillon.bsky.social + Becky, Vicky & everyone else who made it happen

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Francesca Mancini @francescamancini.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Our analysis identifies risks at country scale, for finer spatial analysis (e.g. to infer local #biodiversity impacts) more resolved crops and pesticides usage data are needed. Check out the Land Cover plus: Fertilisers and Pesticides map www.ceh.ac.uk/data/ukceh-l... for a fine resolution example.

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UKCEH Land Cover plus: Fertilisers and Pesticides

By combining information on cropping patterns from UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crops with national survey data on pesticide and fertiliser use, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has created two data p...

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Mapping spatial and temporal patterns of pesticide risk to #pollinators and other #inverts across England - I’ve enjoyed working on this important new resource for research into past changes and future risks from @francescamancini.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 🐝👇

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

NEWS:🌾 First rice trials in the UK! UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions? buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪 🧵 1/

Rice plants growing in water in a small paddy field plot on peatland

Drone view looking straight down on several fields with lots of square and rectangular plots visible

Scientist stands beside a rectangular paddy field plot full of water located in a field

Scientist planting rice in a field with two figures saying 1st rice trials in the UK; and 9 varieties of rice from around the world

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... 🧵🧪1/

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Wonderful to see the sustained effort in FIT Counts coming into @pomscheme.bsky.social for 2025! Running the survey throughout the season will allow us to look at insect responses to shifts in weather patterns and flowering times, as the dataset builds. Please keep the counts coming in 👏🐝🪰🐞

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Target flowers for FIT Counts at the moment include heathers, Ivy, Buddleia & thistles, but if you don't have any of those nearby it's fine to use other flowers - see the FIT Count guides at ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts and give it a try over the bank holiday 👍

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The latest UK Hydrological Outlook forecasts river flows and groundwater levels for August to October. Though recent rainfall helped ease drought pressures in some parts of the country, river flows elsewhere remain unusually low. 📽️ Hear from UKCEH hydrologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social 🧪 1/

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