📑Seen our 2024 #GeneralElection - #ManifestoForBugs? 🤎 It sets out what our smallest & most numerous creatures need from any future #Government. #Invertebrates are the foundation of a healthy environment & essential to ecosystem function... 👇 buglife.org.uk/news/2024-gen… 🧵/1

#GarethSouthgate only drinks tap water on an all inclusive

We're very excited to share with you this film that documents our pioneering urban rewilding scheme, which saw six Brown Bears released into Warley Woods in Bearwood. @ichoosemag @WTBBC @bbcmtd @brumdispatch @birmingham_live @ExpressandStar

Thank you for joining us for #SolitaryBeeHour! Don't forget that you can continue your #SolitaryBee #LearnLoveShare journey by visiting our website 👇 buglife.org.uk/get-involved/… See you again in July for Solitary Bee Week! 👍 . . 🗓️ #SolitaryBeeWeek 🔙 Monday 1 –Sunday 7 July 2024

🐝Welcome to June's #SolitaryBeeHour! 💤We're looking forward to creating a #buzz about #SolitaryBees Let's start with a lovely poem from Jan. Why not share your bee poems & prose? ❤️🔃Join in, tag us & #SolitaryBeeHour @PoMScheme @RoyEntSoc @BumblebeeTrust

There are c280 species of hoverfly in the UK and they are important in pollination and pest control and are relatively easy to spot! We've re-launched HoverWatch, where we ask you to photograph any hoverflies you see and submit them via iNaturalist uk.inaturalist.org/projects/…

We're proud of this logo we've helped come up with for the newly-formed Birmingham and Black Country Invertebrate Group (BIG). See here for more info: ecorecord.org.uk/bbc-inverte… BIG things are happening! #InverteBabs

“I remember realising I had until 3.30pm school pickup to figure out how to tell the children.” Read how Katherine tackled the difficult task of telling her children their father had died by suicide. #SuicidePreventionMonth I found out that my children’s father had died by suicide when the police came to my house. It was a normal day; the children had gone to school and I was working from home. In fact, I thought the police were door to door salesmen and nearly sent them away. I remember sitting down, it was about 11 o'clock on that day, and realising I had until 3.30pm school pickup to figure out how to tell the children. I actually Googled ‘How to tell your child their father has died by suicide’ and top of the listing was Child Bereavement UK. I got through to the Helpline and they were amazing. They had the benefit of having experienced this kind of thing before and were able to give advice based on very practical things to do. The key things I remembered were tell the truth, and don’t lie to them and say he had a heart attack, face the truth that he has taken his own life but don’t give too much information, just let the children ask for the information they need. I think left to my own devices I might have given them a whole contextual piece about how daddy was feeling and why he might have done what he did. The advice I got was lay out the bones of the situation and see what they ask and be willing to answer whatever questions they ask, when they ask them. That's pretty much what I did. It was a really difficult time for us, but it started the right way. If I had chosen to say it in a different way I'd have had to backtrack or unpick things I had unwittingly said. Because I had advice from Child Bereavement UK, I didn’t have to do that which made things easier. I think it started us off on the road to recovery in the best way.

Whatever your views on monarchy, arrest of anti-royalist campaigners for exercising right to peaceful protest is chilling. Many of us warned about exactly this when govt rushed thro the illiberal public order bill. This is not what democracy looks like inews.co.uk/opinion/most-dra…

September morning sunlight shining through the veteran beech trees at Worcestershire Wildlife Trust's Piper's Hill 🍂👏

At Aztec Adventure Upton Warren our neighbours are the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust (bit.ly/3n2pwcp). This week Big Give will double every pound that you donate, up to £10,000. Can you support them? 📷 donate.biggive.org/campaign/…

Year 3 learning all about the mason bee and why he is so important. Thank you to Worcestershire Wildlife Trust for a great assembly #olqpscience #BSW23

"In an introductory meeting with Defra officials, one minister said they had always loved gardening, and spent half an hour talking about their favourite Beatrix Potter characters." thetimes.co.uk/article/9d0e7…

People are literally swimming in sh*t, pumped into our waterways by privatised companies who prefer to invest in dividends & grotesque salaries instead of renewing infrastructure. Time to bring water back into public hands @Feargal_Sharkey @sascampaigns My Urgent Question 👇