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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

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A partnership working with many volunteers to gather data on insect pollinator populations in the UK. Led by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Find out more at ukpoms.org.uk

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BTO Garden BirdWatch @bto-gbw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎉Congratulations to everyone involved in this new PoMS paper! PoMS provides the evidence needed to understand how pollinators in the UK are doing and focus conservation work where it's most needed.🐝🦋
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PoMS reaches another key milestone with publication of our modelling paper and blog on the eve of the last day of our 10th survey season!! 👏🎉 Thanks as ever to all the volunteers, partners and funders who have made this possible 🙏 🌟 More details below!
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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fading Asters are still a magnet for Drone Flies. Eristalis arbustorum. #Diptera #VC55 #flies
Drone Fly, Eristalis arbustorum, on purple Aster flower.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Leave the leaves! 🍂 🍁 Leaves are habitat that support pollinators and other invertebrates and provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter... xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
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Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Roadside pollinator populations and the negative impact of intensive roadside vegetation maintenance... resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Roadside pollinator populations and the negative impact of intensive roadside vegetation maintenance
Less intensively managed roadsides had higher numbers of flower flies and bees; bee diversity was also higher in those roadsides. Community composition was similar across both management types, indi...
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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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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
2026 gave us more butterflies on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects than 2023 and 2024 (these years were the worst since 1990), and a little bit more than 2025, especially in August. But beware of shifting baseline, numbers in most years in the 1990s were often twice as high as nowadays.
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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How to create a garden for the future, with Nadine Mitschunas podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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How to create a garden for the future, with Nadine Mitschunas
Podcast Episode · BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast · September 21 · 46m
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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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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PoMS partner @btobirds.bsky.social is seeking volunteers for winter bird surveys at coastal sites - an opportunity to fill the gap before next year's pollinator season 😀
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A great collage of insects visiting Ivy flowers, from last Sunday's #WildflowerHour 👍 #Pollinator FIT Counts on Ivy (& other flowers) can be done until end of September, & with some dry weather forecast this week there's still time to enjoy watching & counting autumn insects ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
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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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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fake figs, fooled fig wasps & rewarded flies: this plant has one of the strangest #pollination systems yet found in #Apocynaceae. I’ve written about the new study and how it fits into our wider work on this extraordinary plant family. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/18/f... #Biodiversity
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Fake figs, fooled wasps, and another extraordinary Apocynaceae pollination system
One of the things I love about working on the milkweed and dogbane family (Apocynaceae) is that it has an apparently inexhaustible capacity to produce strange and wonderful interactions with animal…
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🌾 AgZero+ datasets are now available as layers in the new Spatial Explorer. Explore hedgerows, fertilisers, pesticides, soils and recreation demands, using sensors, satellites, surveys and study farms to reveal insights into agricultural landscapes and land use. catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/47...
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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This year's #BigButterflyCount results show it was a very good summer for many of our widespread butterfly species. But how will the extreme heat and drought impact next year's populations? ☀️🦋 Dr Dan Hoare, Director of Nature Recovery, breaks down the results.
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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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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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FIT Counts: help us monitor pollinators | PoMS
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Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Do you participate in nature-related citizen science – or would you like to?📱Take part in our survey: ow.ly/bIee50ZHB6o 🔗 More information: ow.ly/EqKX50ZHB6s #CitizenScience #ForestResearch
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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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Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The latest UK butterfly indicators have recently been published. Data from volunteers who take part in the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey on their BBS squares is included in this, so if you are one of them, thank you very much for your time and effort! @btobirds.bsky.social @ukbms.bsky.social
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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It is almost peak Devil's bit Scabious in Lye Valley #fen, the purple haze just does not come out in the photo. The purple bobble flowers are where all the insects are -spot the painted lady I never even noticed in first photo. @friendlyevalley.bsky.social Well worth a visit to see this display.
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Pollinating London Together @pollinatinglt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Discover Clerkenwell’s Pollinator Path! Join us on 22 September at 3pm for an afternoon exploring the links between plants, pollinators and people. We’ll visit two gardens, including St John’s ancient physic garden, and take a guided tour of the Museum of the Order of St John.
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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just published: UK and England butterfly population indicators using UKBMS data. These show a long-term decline in the all-species index in the UK of 18% and a 37% decline for habitat specialists in the UK. Check out the full statistics here ⬇️ www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join these cuckoo bumblebees for a thistle picnic🧺 🐦Six of the UK’s 24 bumblebee species are cuckoo bumblebees. Instead of building nests, females take over those of other bumblebees and rely on them to raise their young. ⚠️Important pollinators, they are not a major threat to bumblebee populations.
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Look forward to seeing this!
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's been a bumper year for Humming-bird Hawk-moths, with over 8,000 sightings across the UK reported via iRecord so far. If you've not yet seen one yourself keep watching flowers (and doing FIT Counts!) and look out for their amazing hovering behaviour.
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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 · 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 · 11/08/2026
Lovely to see #FITcounts and other insect recording methods in action at the @cedarrecordsni.bsky.social Teen Nature Recorders Workshop. Still time to get familiar with the ukpoms.org.uk/index.php/fi... before the summer is out!
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FIT Count app | PoMS
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Chris @fife-chris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Setting up a @pomscheme.bsky.social 1km square survey. Nearly always more difficult to find the perfect weather day for pollinator surveys in northern Scotland! At least the heather is blooming for the #FITCounts
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New BeeWalk data shows that extreme temperatures can cause bumblebee colonies to decline and populations to shrink the following spring. With more intense heatwaves on the horizon, some of our most cherished species could be pushed to the brink. Read more: ow.ly/JMNs50ZqHir
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It was buzzing at the #BeesNeedsWeek Science Festival at RHS Wisley. Visitors discovered how easy it is to support pollinator science by spending 10 minutes counting pollinating insects on flowers 🐝🌼 Take time in nature with your own FIT Count for @pomscheme.bsky.social ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
Three people look at ragwort flowers to count pollinatorsTwo people bend down to look at ragwort flowersTable of information leaflets about various insectsPeople at an information desk chatting
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A fantastic 3000+ dedicated volunteers contributed data to the first Official Statistic in Development on pollinating insects trends in GB, published recently. A huge thanks to all of them! 🙏 The data were collected for @pomscheme.bsky.social & you too can get involved: ukpoms.org.uk 1/ #BeesNeeds
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Looking forward to kick starting #beesneedsweek2026 with @pollinatinglt.bsky.social and the City of London at this evening event discussing data and pollinators! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-and-p...
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Data and Pollinators: Evidence for Action
Join us in person to explore how data drives action to protect pollinators and our planet!
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The National Plant Monitoring Scheme @npms.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
At a time of increased environmental pressure, volunteer-power comes to the rescue! NPMS volunteers are delivering crucial data to help us understand UK plant biodiversity & habitat health. Find out how in the new #NPMS Annual Report: ow.ly/SBqE50ZkChX
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Kingston University Biodiversity @biodiversityku.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Read all about it. The latest biodiversity newsletter from @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social all about 🦋 and balsam @kingstonunilib.bsky.social @kingstoneconomics.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social mailchi.mp/e6d5f2a1255a...
Image of three different butterflies spotted during a volunteer habitat session on Saturday the 4th of July Images of volunteers next to and working in the river and on riverbanks, pulling out invasive Himalayan Balsam plants
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our latest Annual Report is out, covering the year 2025 🎉 It includes our latest results & the trend analysis being developed as Official Statistics, plus updates from PoMS partners & volunteers, species highlights, FIT Counts for the National Education Nature Park, & more ukpoms.org.uk/reports
Images of the PoMS Annual Report, showing the front cover with a hoverfly photo, and examples of two pages from the report. Available in English and Welsh.
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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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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A celebration of fantastic flies from @bbowt.bsky.social ⬇️👏🪰
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Whitmuir Estate @whitmuir1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Visit to my @pomscheme.bsky.social #1kmsquare for June survey. Warm but pleasant. Most insects seem to prefer the shade today. However the female Clegs have no trouble with the weather, wearing shorts maybe not my best choice today. Getting buzzed by big noisy things too. @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The UKPoMS Stats and Annual Report were released today giving an important insight into how pollinating insects are doing, as well as providing valuable data on which flowers attract butterflies, day-flying moths and other pollinating insects. ukpoms.org.uk/sites/defaul... @pomscheme.bsky.social
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A big day for PoMS today, with newly published pollinator trends based on PoMS survey data, and the publication of the PoMS Annual Report for 2025. See the thread below and download the Annual Report from ukpoms.org.uk/reports
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to PoMS partner @uniofreading.bsky.social for their impressive commitment to sustainability
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Have you done a ten-minute FIT Count for #pollinators during #InsectWeek? There's still time! See ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts (but please take care during hot weather - FIT Counts can be done on flowers in the shade 😎 but if in doubt wait for cooler conditions)
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FIT Counts: help us monitor pollinators | PoMS
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s #InsectWeek! Join the @royentsoc.bsky.social at one of their fantastic 5 City Hubs for 2026, featuring hands-on science and insect discovery. Watch this space for more from @pomscheme.bsky.social later in the week!
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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s #InsectWeek! Join the @royentsoc.bsky.social at one of their fantastic 5 City Hubs for 2026, featuring hands-on science and insect discovery. Watch this space for more from @pomscheme.bsky.social later in the week!
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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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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
June is a special month for UK bumblebees – the Big Eight are joined by more of our rare and less common species 💛 👑 This month, most of these rare and less common queens will produce their first daughters – the workers 💼 🎱 For the Big Eight, many queens and workers will be joined by new males 🚹
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Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
(1/) If you would like to practice butterfly identification in a supportive environment and learn more about monitoring these colourful creatures, sign up for our FREE event at BTO Headquarters in Norfolk on Saturday 20 June: www.bto.org/our-work/eve... @btobirds.bsky.social @ukbms.bsky.social
The caption says 'Free Butterfly ID practice session.' The image shows a Small Heath butterfly, which is grey underneath with organge wings.
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