6thMarch 2025
Botanic gardens and nature
This post on Scottish Pollinators (24 February 2025) shares fascinating insights into how botanical gardens in Scotland, and further afield in Europe are coping with change. Read Coping with calamities.
9thFebruary 2022
Plants are flowering a month earlier – here’s what it could mean for pollinating insects
This article in The Conversation (4 February, 2022) describes work by scientists at the University of Cambridge. They have shown that plants are flowering about a month earlier in the UK. This is linked to warmer temperatures in spring and climate change.
30thSeptember 2021
Lights-out, please
This blog post in Scottish Pollinators explores the environmental impacts of artificial light at night on biodiversity and people. Why not survey light pollution around your school and the insect species you can find?
