Bumblebee queens need early spring flowers near their nests
Flowers as used by Bumblebee queens in early spring Early spring flowers literally is the life blood for bumblebee queens and their colonies for newly emerged hibernating queens. The flowers can be crucial to the success or failure of their lives. The establishment...
Hedgehog feeding on peanut butter in hedgehog feeding station April 2015
Hedgehog feeding up after a long hibernation Very nice to see a hedgehog in my garden so early in the year. I realise it must have hibernated not too far away... be interesting to find out! The peanut butter mixture proved very popular with dried mealworms, crushed...
Beware! Is your ‘bee hotel’ a nursery for disease and pests? – video
Beware! Is your 'bee hotel' a nursery for disease and pests? Or put another way, why does n't my bee hotel work and increase my wild bees? I wish, from my experience as a researcher, educator, designer, user and producer of bee boxes, to shed light on the controversy...
Cheshire BTO Garden Bird Watch Ambassador
Cheshire Garden Bird Watch Ambassador available for talks George Pilkington (www.nurturing-nature.co.uk) 01925 452819 nurturing-nature@virginmedia.com Help needed! If you can help distribute BTO Garden BirdWatch guides and leaflets or would like a talk then please get...
The Buzz Club initiative open letter from Prof. Dave Goulson with video!
Lets help the pollinators and have fun learning! Dear enthusiast, We are all concerned at the plight of our bees and other wild pollinators due to loss of habitat, the introduction of new diseases, and widespread pesticide use. You are receiving this email because you...
Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetables
Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetables I don't really want to have a cocktail of many different pesticides, weed and fungi killers on my fruit and vegetables. I don't want to have to read and wade through reports to find them out either! I grow and do...
Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair 2015
Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair 2015 7Th March 2015 I am giving a bumblebee talk/presentation at the Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair Sat 7th March 2015, Staffordshire University Science Centre, Leek Road, Stole on Trent ST4 2DF. Talks 12.00-12.45pm...
Dad I think we need to talk about the birds, bees and flowers!
Dad I think we need to talk about the birds, bees and flowers! Sometimes kids have a way with words!! From a lovely Finnish web site in English, which I can recommend if you like nature, the environment and a host of related topics in cartoons! Well worth a...
Nurturing Nature bumblebee nest boxes used at a scientific research lab
Dr C Moffat- "Why we chose Nurturing Nature for our bumblebee research programme" I’ve spent several years working with bumblebees both outside in the field and indoors inside a research laboratory at the University of Dundee. While looking for well-designed nest...
South Liverpool Homes residents enjoying organic and wildlife gardening course
Nurturing Nature with South Liverpool Homes Group Residents Last spring, I was approached to teach a 6 week 'taster' organic and wildlife gardening course on behalf of the South Liverpool Homes Group to be held at Dutch Farm where the Liverpool Food Alliance and...