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19thJanuary 2022

Education as if people and planet matter – the wasp lesson

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Read this thought provoking and winning essay written by a secondary school teacher from Leeds, in Resurgence & Ecologist online. The Wasp Lesson addresses how and what we teach, and the value of establishing a connection with nature in children and young people. This was shared by the Forest School [...]

30thSeptember 2021

Autumn means more house spiders and sugar hungry wasps

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This article in The Conversation (23 September 2021) explains why.

29thJuly 2021

Alien or parasitoid?

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This blog post in Scottish pollinators Thick-headed undertakers (20 May 2021) describes the remarkable lifecycle of parasitoid insects, and how we must embrace the gruesome in biodiversity.