Official feed of @BumblebeeTrust project testing BEE-Steward to help improve the Fowey Valley for pollinators. Encouraging bumblebee friendly planting as well.
Fowey, Cornwall, UK
Joined March 2020
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Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
We usually identify bumblebees by first looking at their tail colour and banding. However, a few bumblebees can be entirely black, which makes them much harder to tell apart. This is known as Melanism 🖤🐝
Read our latest blog to find out more 👇🏽
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ALT A partially melanic Tree bumblebee with a black and dark ginger thorax.
ALT Melanic Ruderal bumblebee feeding on a flower.
ALT A Hairy-footed flower bee collecting pollen.
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
Bumblebee queens are on a mission to find somewhere to nest – and they urgently need your help 🐝👑
#BeeTheChange this spring by providing nest sites for homeless bumblebees 🏠
Discover how you can help 👉 ow.ly/kl6u50Nkcty
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
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It's time to open Day 1 of our Online Advent Calendar. Every morning between now and Christmas Day, we are sharing one door from our online advent calendar. Come back tomorrow to open your next sweet surprise 🐝🎁
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
If you are in need of that #FridayFeeling, then look no further! This group of male Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) was captured by Gaynor Griffiths on a passion flower in her garden 💚Unlike worker #bumblebees, the males don't return to the #nest once they've left 🐝
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
It's #BeesNeedsWeek2022, and bumblebees need... YOU! 🙏🐝
Discover 5 simple ways you can help save #bumblebees in our new video, then buzz on over to our #BeeTheChange resources hub to get started! 👉🏽 ow.ly/z46650K03fq
#SaveTheBees #BeeKind #VeryImportantPollinators
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
Grateful to have received funding for our science led & evidence based @buzzingfowey project 🐝 #ThankYou #Science teapawt.net/theprincesfund/status/…
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Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
This week is #NationalInsectWeek and what better way to celebrate the importance of all insects! 🐝 🐜 🦋 🐞 🕸️ 🐛
Insect week encourages people of all ages to learn more about insects & for us, it is none other than the humble bumble!
#Pollinators #Food #Wildflowers #Insects
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
Notes from @BumblebeeTrust @ @BuzzingScotland Skills for Bees workshop last weekend (page 1 of 3)! So much to get involved in and great presentation by Annie. ❤️ the bumbles! 🐝 #bumblebees
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
Please come & say hello to our staff this week in the Discovery Zone, Great Pavillion at #RHSChelsea 🐝 Our exhibit aims to highlight the amazing opportunity gardeners have to make a difference for bumblebees & other pollinators!
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@Kate_Bradbury @BuzzingShrill @nikkigammans
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
📚Are you a teacher or education provider looking for resources about sand dunes, succession or species ID? Check out our revamped schools page, full of free materials for KS1-5 dynamicdunescapes.co.uk/get-…
#teachSDG #teachSDGs #bitesizeSDGs
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
🎂 Happy birthday to our #BeeTheChange campaign, which is 1 year old today! Here's a throwback to our homegrown launch video 🚀
🥳 Help us celebrate today by pledging your support & checking out all the lovely resources - it's FREE! 👉 ow.ly/cHaP50I9cke
#FridayFeeling
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
#FFLC22
“Multiple income streams make us more resilient"
“We want to look at our carbon count, but also to have a wider impact in reducing food miles & providing quality local produce, while replacing plastic materials with biocomposite from locally grown fibres" - Helen Keys
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
We're looking for a major #sponsor for #BeeTheChange, our campaign that inspires people to take small actions to help bumblebees 🐝👀
If your organisation could help, get in touch at [email protected]
Discover Bee the Change 👉 ow.ly/SZjX50I0eVQ
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
There are lots of factors to think about when creating a bumblebee-friendly #community greenspace, from identifying a site to securing funding - and of course the all-important planting! 🌱🐝
Find step-by-step advice in our free guide 👉 ow.ly/NtXm50HyW00
#BeeTheChange
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
Request!
If you know any inspiring *young* green-minded farmers, ecologists, hedgelayers or anyone working in trees/nature/wildlife, particularly if they have a slight geek for hedges, please ask them to DM me :)
We're looking for inspiring young folk to lead the way
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
New PhD opportunity to create bio-inspired synthetic flowers to support standardised monitoring of pollinating insects.
Looking for design skills inc. CAD, 3D printing, micro-fabrication, and a passion for the environment
#PhDposition
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Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
We're very excited that #OFRC22 is kicking off with loads of stuff going on! The sessions on farm woodland & hedges that sound interesting, and an important one about better labelling of meat. But the session we're most looking forward to is about native UK bees 🐝
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
It was lovely to be involved in this! Well done to the winning bumblebee artists!
Looking forward to seeing what bumbles visit the bulbs next spring! @BumblebeeTrust 🐝🌱
Well done to our fantastic winners of the Bumblebees and Flowers art competition. We've had so much fun delivering the prizes and planting out the spring bulbs. The schools will be buzzing! Thanks @bumble_being @BumblebeeTrust @Kate_Bradbury & for the tools @Buzz_dont_tweet
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
New paper summarises our work on @healthyfood_h3: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Team includes @jaworskicoline @CamZoology @FWAGeast @GWCT @SoilAssociation @AHDB_Cereals
Fowey Valley Bumblebee Project retweeted
A OSR crop intercropped with vetch, phacelia, berseem clover & buckwheat #regenerativeagriculture @SoilAssociation @No1FarmerJake
