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Ecologist & beekeeper. Beekeeping & wild pollinator conservation consultancy working with businesses & communities to benefit London's pollinators
London, England
Joined August 2015
Think I’ve just found 9 Small-flowered Tongue Orchids on the @Nomura green roof. What do you recon @Mike_Waller_ @BSBIbotany @fungi_flowers
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RT @AdamHartScience: Don't become a beekeeper- become an insect cheerleader!.My article in BBC Focus is out now.@uniofglos ..
sciencefocus.com
Panic over declining honeybee numbers is making headlines, but our love for the humble bee might be keeping us from seeing the bigger picture
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Isodonta mexicana the Mexican grass carrying wasp found today in Bloomsbury.
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Toadflax brocade Moth caterpillars munching on purple toadflax on the @Nomura green roof today. @savebutterflies
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Finishing work for the week at 7.30pm with a honey colada at my clients restaurant. Pink pollen coming into their hives. Busy Lizzy? Field scabious?
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Rent a bee hive companies continue to deny that honey bees pose any threat to wild pollinators despite a substantial body of evidence being published. New analysis highlights threshold for negative impact even lower than previously thought.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The ecological consequences of high-density honeybee management are significant, calling for a re-evaluation of pollination strategies in agricultural landscapes. Setting evidence-based hive density...
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A new bee species for Tower Hamlets Cemetery recorded on Tuesday. Nomada flavopicta the Blunthorn Nomad. A cuckoo of Clover Blunthorn Bee Melitta leporina. first record for the borough and very scarcely recorded in Greater London. @FoTHCP @iGiGL @LNHSoc @TowerHamletsNow
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Final school outing of the summer yesterday for my gypsy caravan of bees. We were at @CentralParkPri educating the children about the importance of insect pollinators.
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All my best colonies are headed by feisty piping queens who murdered their sisters! The workers are very gentle and great to work with.
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A new queen emerged today in our hive restaurant @Selfridges hive. The workers made lots of emergency queen cells after I thinned out the queen cells a week ago. They were determined to swarm but this queen had other thoughts and killed all her rival sister queens.
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RT @alanball101: Its the poorest year for owls this year, due to lack of food, and I have ringed only a hundred of each of Barn Owls and Ke….
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I’ve often noticed colonies with newly emerged virgin queens have more drones than they did prior to the queen emerging.
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The next day I’m inspecting my mansion house colonies 4 miles away and I find a red marked drone on one of the combs! Colony had a virgin queen. Was he sniffing out sex? We know drones move freely between colonies but do we know over what distances?.
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Intetesting story involving colour marked Honey Bee Drones. I recently took an observation hive into a school with a blue marked queen and a handful of red marked drones (male bees). Returned hive to apiary in east london and freed the queen and drones from the observation sect.
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Some Honey Bee colonies are more dramatical than others. #SwarmPreperations.#MultiplyByDivision.#NotTodayGirls
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My favourite plant right now has to be Echium vulgare the Vipers Bugloss. This one large plant has today attracted 12 species of bee and 4 Lepidoptera including these beauties. One of these bees is only recorded from fewer than 10 sites nationally!
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