Sweet chestnut leaves and spiky cases shining after recent rains! Last few weeks to register to add 'check a sweet chestnut' records together, helping understand spread of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp in the country. 📏📱👣🌳⚪ rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Last month to register with Check a Sweet Chestnut citizen science project! Enjoy a walk with a tape measure and recording the health of these lovely trees as a citizen scientist 👣🧐 🌳🔍📏🫧📱looking out for Oriental Chestnut gall wasp symptoms 🍃 rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Citizen scientists are recording UK Sweet Chestnuts and Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp symptoms...results show sightings found in new areas of UK, and volunteers checking in UK's 4 nations @Jassydrak presented @citizensciencetreehealthnetwork @AttinghamParkNT rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp symptoms on the midribs of sweet chestnut leaves. If you have seen these symptoms please let TreeAlert know @APHAgovuk. To take part in Check a Sweet Chestnut 👣 🧐🌿🌳📱📏🫧 citizen science project register here rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-… @Treezilla_org

Sweet chestnut trees clean our air and the flowers smell lovely! Walking or running in nature? Check a sweet chestnut together, for its health this summer: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Planks of waney edge sawn timber of English Sweet Chestnut drying. Photo from Vastern Timber. If you're working with sweet chestnut and would like to be involved with Check a Sweet Chestnut, tree health project see rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Seen sweet chestnut flowers on the ground or pavement? Do they smell of frying mushrooms? Look up and Check a Sweet Chestnut for it's health, and for signs of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp on the leaves...rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Sweet chestnuts are flowering now, a great way to I-D them, and know where to look for sweet chestnuts to forage for later in the year! Check -a-sweet-chestnut and record its health, in our tree health citizen science study: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Sweet chestnut catkins are a great favourite of bees. Measuring between 10-20cm, they appear in late June and July, and hold the flowers of both sexes: male flowers above and female flowers in the lower portion. Keep an eye out for tree health: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Hello John, I don't know if you'd be interested in being a citizen scientist on sweet chestnut health? If you have a tape, sweet chestnut trees and see signs of Oriental gall wasp, or its absence, in N. Ireland..we'd love to hear from you...Thank you! rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

'Check a sweet chestnut' as a citizen scientist, with a tape measure and record its health, looking for signs of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp making leaf distortions. Register here: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

Sweet chestnut is monoecious, meaning both male and female flowers are found on the same tree. Have you seen their long, yellow catkins of mostly male flowers forming? Join our citizen science tree health project here: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…

A perfect time to identify and check a sweet chestnut for its health and yours. Are the leaves shiny, serrated, long and flat? Any crooked? Could be a sign of Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp... To check a sweet chestnut, find out more here: rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-…