Insect week

19th to the 25th June 2023

#LittleThingsThatRunTheWorld!

You are not a lazy gardener, you’re a bumblebee and baby butterfly buddy!

Celebrating all bees – the hard working honey bees, the wild, furry bumblebees and all the others busily buzzing out there.

A wealth of information can be found at;

https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/savingbees

https://www.bbka.org.uk/pages/faqs/category/bee-facts

Nature’s biodiversity lifeline, weaving across all parts of the UK.

They provide a home – shelter, food, safety – to most of our wildlife and they need protecting. Take a stroll – breath deeply, listen, look, feel.

There is a wealth of information available at; hedgelink.org.uk/campaign/national-hedgerow-week

Fabulous, Fantastic Fungi

– amongst the underground defenders of the earth.

The mycelia / root like network, reaches wide and far, constantly providing bioremediation,

mycofiltration, converting biomass and stabilising soil… Amazing.

Their World, in our hands. Our world, in their ‘hands’. Do no harm.

Essential services and clean up crew — Airborne division White-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) critically endangered

Admiration goes to all those working to stop the destruction of the birds of prey, who fill such an important niche in the natural order.

Recently featured in news was Malawi’s Liwonde National Park, where four species of critically endangered vultures have started returning, after an absence of twenty years.

Their World, in our hands. Do no harm.

Entomologist meets Anthropologist. To non-primates, all primates may look the same…

Their world, in our hands. World Elephant Day, 12th August 2021