We’re grateful to @ASTRAZENECAUK volunteers for their hard work today: planting 100 trees, creating a pollinator patch & wildflower meadow, and harvesting pears for the community. A fantastic collaboration for people & nature 🌳🍐🌸🐝 #Community #BeesNeeds #SaveCotonOrchard

For #BeesNeedsWeek2025, we delve into our Counting the Earth archives to learn more about planting for pollinators, and how citizen science is enhancing what we know about these vital insects... 🎧 Listen here: audioboom.com/posts/8517522-… #ThrowbackThursday #BeesNeeds

The @UK_CEH team are out and about for #BeesNeedsWeek2025 - today Martin and Robin are at Kew Gardens with @PoMScheme volunteers and @DefraGovUK celebrating the efforts of #BeesNeeds champions and talking #pollinators and #FITcounts!

The Science Oxford Centre was buzzing for Nature Club's Bee Day 🐝 on Saturday, with honey tasting, eco-friendly beeswax creations and lots of busy bees with Oxfordshire Beekeepers Association! Next up: Pond-dipping (28 June, ages 5-9) #WorldBeeDay #SolitaryBeeWeek #BeesNeeds

We are now officially a member of @pollinatingLT! We have joined the team as a commitment to supporting the work they do to enhance spaces as good habitats where all native pollinators can thrive. #biodiversity #pollinators #rewildlondon #BeesNeeds

Proud to be named a Bees Needs Champion by DEFRA! 🏆 This national award recognizes our efforts in supporting pollinators across 60 green spaces in London and creating three green corridors with the Corporation of London. 🌿🌼🐝 #BeesNeeds #Pollinators

Congratulations @lpoolcouncil winners of Bees Needs Champion 2024 So many beautiful green spaces growing across the city.💚 Improving #AirQuality #Biodiversity & creating a nicer place for people to bee 🐝 #HealthierPeopleHealthierPlanet #UrbanGreenUp #BeesNeeds

Researchers warn of risks to agriculture and food security as bees and other beneficial bugs are disproportionately harmed by air pollution. @jmwryalls of @UniRdg_SAPD says we need stricter air quality regulations to protect our #BeesNeeds 🐝 reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Rese…

DEFRA promotes ‘Bees Needs’ week each year. 🐝 Here’s a handy expert video from our lesson archives to help if you’re looking into it with your class - the whole video is on YouTube. Full lesson plans and presentations are available from our website. —- #beesneeds #bees

Pleased to see healthy numbers of leafcutter bees out and about today 🍃🐝 #BeesNeeds

🐝🌸 We are thrilled to announce that we've received a national award from @DefraGovUK during #BeesNeedsWeek! We're Bees’ Needs Champions! Together, we can make a difference! 🌼🐝 Thanks to @GroundControlGC and @BumbleBeeTrust for their support. #BeesNeeds @SteveReedMP

Well done to our wonderful Year 2 children and staff for their performance of 'The Bee Musical', a fun and educational musical all about the importance of our pollinators.  🐝🌻🍯 📷More photos: pinnerpark.harrow.sch.uk/new… #BeesNeedsWeek2024 #BeesNeeds

Delighted to announce we have been awarded a DEFRA Bees Needs Champion 2024 Award for 'exceptional work' to help pollinators survive and thrive. Massive thanks to our gardening volunteers who have helped win this award for the third time! A fantastic achievement. #BeesNeeds

It's #WorldBeeDay 💜 #WorldBeeDay2024 #BeetheChange #bumblebee #ThePhotoHour #channel169 #naturelovers #TwitterNatureCommunity #365DaysWild #NaturePhotography #bumblebees #nature #bees #savethebees @Buzz_dont_tweet #BeesNeeds #pollinators #nature #bugsmatter

1) Someone show this to every elected official in West Hartford. 2) Just another reminder to those in the Northern Hemisphere that Dandelions are a key source of early nectar to Pollinators, flowering normally begins in a few weeks time but we're already getting reports of Dandelions appearing across the hemisphere, so consider leaving a few plants to flower if you are mowing 🐝 Dandelion (genus Taraxacum) are flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions native to Eurasia and to North America, but the two commonplace species in the wider world, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, were also introduced from Europe and now propagate as wildflowers in those regions including North America where they are considered introduced. Both species are edible in their entirety. The common name dandelion comes from French "dent-de-lion", meaning "lion's tooth". Like other members of the family Asteraceae, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. In part due to their abundance along with being a generalist species, dandelions are one of the most vital early spring nectar sources for a wide host of pollinators that themselves are critical to pollination of later flowering plants. Although they are appearing earlier, May-June is a peak blooming time critical for Pollinators. #beesneeds #pollinators #bees #biodiversity #pollination #wildlifenet #dandelions #nomow

Thank you to ALL those in the Northern Hemisphere who have relaxed mowing regimes, Dandelions are a vital source of early forage for bees & other Pollinators 🌼🐝 #bee #bees #Pollinators #wildlife #nature #beesneeds WWW.WILDLIFE.NET

production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. Interesting facts from 🐝 beekeepingbasic 🐝 #beesneeds #pollinators #wildlifenet

Our Bees’ Needs Awards celebrate people and organisations taking inspiring action to boost biodiversity. Do you know a nature champion who supports our precious pollinators? 🐝 Nominate them for a #BeesNeeds Award! Find out how to apply ➡️ gov.uk/government/publicatio…

Received our certificate in the post today for our recent @DefraNature #Beesneeds award, on behalf of our Urban verge wildlife initiative at @LeicsCountyHall with @Nature_Spot. So proud of everyone involved, & also to be recognised for all the hard work too 🐝#saveourpollinators

#Gardeners could do more to help #spiders, all #insects (incl #bees, #butterflies, #hoverflies, #moths) & #birds as they need good supplies of food, & places to #nest & overwinter. 5/8 theguardian.com/commentisfre… #natureshome #beesneeds #beenews #gardening #wildlife #rewilding