Ecologist & beekeeper. Beekeeping & wild pollinator conservation consultancy working with businesses & communities to benefit London's pollinators
Joined August 2015
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4 Jun 2021
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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This weekend you’ll find me at Montague gardens, Bloomsbury with Bedford Estates selling my @TCESEastLondon pupils student enterprise products as part of open gardens weekend. We have lots of nice things for sale.
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May 29
Common yellow faced bees making more bees on catmint blooms on the @Nomura roof today alongside many other bees and a large number of Painted Lady Butterflies which seem to be flocking to our shores to escape the heat dome on the continent.
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May 26
Odynerus spinipes- spiny mason wasp found a nesting aggregation in @gateshead Derwent valley today. Not many records for the north east of England.
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May 26
Spent bank holiday Monday on a SSI Ancient flood plane meadow practicing for my FISC exam in a weeks time. Disgusted at the uncivilised behaviour of some people leaving bbqs, litter and dog poo bags everywhere. Take your mess home, leave only footprints.
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May 25
New bee species for Hackney; Hoplitis adunca the Vipers Bugloss Mason Bee. A new species first recorded in Britain just a few years ago and known from just a handful of sites. Found yesterday in Shoreditch Park.
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May 20
Busy day working in schools celebrating #WorkdBeeDay educating pupils about insect pollination #Honeybees #SolitaryBees #BumbleBees
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May 17
I removed by bees from Oxford street after years of them struggling. Not enough forage in the area & high hive density. Putting additiinal hives there is not helping biodiversity. This is utter #beewash from Alveole. Expect more as #worldbeeday approaches. alveole.com/customer-stories…
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May 11
I’m 20 years of beekeeping I’ve never seen this before until this weekend. Queen returning from mating flight with male genitals still attached.
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The old street station green roof looking rather lovely today. Must be irrigated to look this good after months without any rain. Mallow, cat seat, Echium, Silene, buttercups and Leucanthemum putting on a nice display.
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Spent my Saturday committing regal infanticide to try and stop bee colonies swarming. The swarm urge is very strong this spring. They’ve already had a comb change and been artificial swarmed/split.
Just rescued a swarm in the rain.
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London desperately needs some rain this weekend. Forecast is for 5-10mm between Saturday and Monday. There’s been no rain since February and the green roofs are now brown months earlier than usual. Nothing for pollinators, biodiversity crashing and they are no longer cooling 🏢
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Apr 30
Seeing very few bumblebees this spring. This was my first Bombus hortorum of the year today in Stratford feeding on pink campion. Lots of bees and butterflies visiting the @TCESEastLondon garden today.
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Apr 15
The @StPaulsLondon peregrines soaring above Cheapside this morning. Seen from @ESgloballaw rooftop. @LdnPeregrines
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Apr 15
Anthophora plumipes pollinating broadbeans in the @TCESEastLondon school garden yesterday.
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Apr 10
Pyrrhidium sanguineum -Welsh Oak Longhorn Beetle found on a green roof on Cheapside today. It’s listed as rare and vulnerable RDB2. The larva are saproxylic feeding on dead wood, typically oak. @CoLEnvironment @treeruss @iGiGL
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Apr 10
Found a few meadow saxifrage plants on a very thin substrate green roof this afternoon. A plant that has died out on most of the other roofs in the neighbourhood of @thecityofldn. Climate becoming to dry for it. @CoLEnvironment @BSBIbotany lots of rue leaved saxifrage as well
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Just identified Myopa testacea using the new book. At first I thought it was ferruginous bee grabber- found in Vicky park around Andrena haemorrhoa and nitida nesting aggregation @StevenFalk1 @Ecoentogeek
Mar 20
New book arrived. Aside from hoverflies, Flies are a group I’m not very proficient in. With help from this new book I aim to improve. Down the rabbit hole we go!
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Apr 3
One in five trees planted using taxpayer funding died due to drought last year, leaving the UK even further away from meeting its legally-binding tree cover targets trib.al/msWDjfl
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Found 2 charged queen cells in a hive yesterday with day old larva in them. Colony busting at Seams, had filled the box I gave them last week 😱. Loads of mature drones coming and going. Swarm season is upon us.
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