With one in nine species at risk of extinction in Scotland, the time to act is now 🚨 Join us to demand that our MSPs stand up for nature. 📅 Thursday 12 June 🕒 12:30-2pm 📌 Scottish parliament Make your voice heard. Join the demo: ow.ly/eFqu50W5mgK

📣 Teachers, Eco Clubs, Outdoor Learning Champions: #NationalPollinatorWeek runs from 17th–23rd June 2025! 🐝🎓 Discover how your school can make a huge difference for bumblebees and register for your Bumblebee-friendly School Award: ow.ly/Hq6p50W0E41

Bumblebees are in crisis. Could you help us in leading the fight to secure their future? We are looking for a Trustee with experience in Science & Conservation to join our Board. See our vacancy page for the full details: ow.ly/9Ros50W6fAw 📅 Tuesday 1 July 2025

Fancy helping our Shrill Carder Bumblebee's? Take a look at our recent vacancy!

Bumblebee numbers are declining. Can we use their sounds to protect them? The BumbleBuzz and Bumblebee Conservation Trust project from the 2024 WILDLABS Awards used acoustics, AI, and citizen science to help conserve these species. Learn about their project here: youtu.be/a1GoSnZw6Yw?si…

This is an important role. We are working with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in RestPoll, focused on the shrill carder bee in one of our living labs for pollinator restoration.

It was a privilege to stand up for bumblebees outside @Scotparl today 🐝 Big thanks to everyone who joined to show Scotland’s decision-makers how much nature matters. Let’s hope they heard us! #StandupforNature #BumblebeeManifesto @ScotLink Mark Ruskell

My notebook is full of bumblebee sightings to share with the North East Bee Hunt, a citizen science project led by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, to help increase understanding of our region’s bumbles 🔎🐝 nhsn.org.uk/north-east-bee…

It was great that you could bee there and thank you for standing up for nature 🐝

Thank you vbloke and the Reddit community 💛 Follow Beelinda's story here: ow.ly/wxl750WezSr

I'll be talking about how we can do a better job of looking after our insects, Oxford, this Friday at 6pm, all welcome! Lots of other events too at the Nature Late Fest, over 30 different stalls and activities, plus tree trail, and a Moth Night! Book here: tinyurl.com/32h4vu7s

🚨 £250m a year–£2.5bn in the next decade–could be lost for nature recovery 🚨 Government proposals on planning rules could see developments built on an area the size of the Yorkshire Dales without developers compensating for the wildlife destroyed. 📰 ow.ly/GHsZ50WnJbo

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree. youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

A little town in Sweden - Tomelilla - is pioneering what it means to put Doughnut Economics into practice. This can be great inspiration for many towns and villages seeking to create a different kind of future... check out this article in today's Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

I was sent to the Tower yesterday, luckily just a talk about our B.E.E - southeast London project. A great talk by Prof Baldock started the evening setting the scene about insect pollinators. This was part of Pollinating London Together. For more info about B.E.E see Bumblebee Conservation Trust website

Great art work from the kids enjoying the Mullet Peninsula bioblitz today. Many thanks to multi-talented Gemma O'Connor for leading workshop

The honey trap: how the beekeeping boom backfired City banks & hotels stick hives on their roofs to score eco points. David Beckham & Meghan Markle are getting in on the act.But our obsession with helping honeybees puts UK’s 274 other bee species in peril thetimes.com/life-style/wil…

🐝 🌻🏊‍♀️🐕🐕 🪁Barbara Keating Beewilded Gill Perkins Phil Stevenson Richard Glassborow Ldn Beekeepers Assoc Bumblebee Conservation Trust To be honest it’s nothing that haven’t already been printed. Increasing hive numbers in London, decreasing honey yields, increased instances of EFB, starvation, some beekeepers reducing colony numbers but instantly undone by new boys on the block muscling in from Canada.

We don’t want to stop our vital work that supports bumblebee conservation 🚨 Whether we’ve answered your bumblebee question, identified a bumblebee for you, or simply made you smile with our content, we ask you to please donate today: bumblebeeconservation.org/give

BBC News (UK) please FACTCHECK your #BEES story on 6 o’clock News today 1. Honey bees are NOT in decline 2. Honey bees are NOT responsible for pollinating 70% of the food we eat – POLLINATORS are. Majority are wild. Wildlife IS in decline. Ignorance doesn’t help