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You first. Instead of just throwing a link at us, you first
Makes good copy and a change from Covid, I guessThe usual rubbish being regurgitated again with no thought as to whether there's any real truth in it.
a few months ago SWMBO was pinged - for a start, it was nearly two weeks after the alleged contact, and when we worked back, neither of us had been out of the house that day or on any day seven days each side of the date, neither had we met anyone else during that time.Makes good copy and a change from Covid, I guess. Mind you we do have a new word. Pingemic?
Once again ... it's a study that by, nature of the sources it takes from, is fundamentally flawed ..indeed it is probably looking through the wrong end of the telescope ... if the perpetrators, promoters and purveyors of this information thought about it a bit ... if the problem, as they perceieve it, is that there is not enough forage in urban locations then perhaps the answer is not to try and reduce the number of pollinators but to encourage the owners and occupiers of urban landscapes to plant more things that are pollinator friendly.Pargyle isn't going to like this....![]()
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That goes across the board of course. Stan and I put up a barn owl box and we got barn owls. A tawny box and our garden is alive at night with three youngster flying from tree to tree and squeaking at each other. Our little solitary bee boxes are full of leaf cutter bee nests, the new pond has attracted not only frogs and various insects but also a grass snakeThe bottom line was something I picked up some years ago ... if you plant things that are attractive to pollinators - they will come.
Totally agree ... even where I live, near the centre of town, our garden attracts all types of insects, birds and mammals ...our 8' x 4' wildlife pond is home to frogs and newts (how do they find it ?) a field mouse lives in a hole alongside the pond paved margin and we get dragonflies and damsel flies... the loostrife is awash with bees of all sorts. So much can be done in a small space and we should all encourage domestic and commercial locations to make more of their environment.That goes across the board of course. Stan and I put up a barn owl box and we got barn owls. A tawny box and our garden is alive at night with three youngster flying from tree to tree and squeaking at each other. Our little solitary bee boxes are full of leaf cutter bee nests, the new pond has attracted not only frogs and various insects but also a grass snake
We SHOULD make the effort where we can.
There is a scintilla of sense within this Grauniad article (unlike the bollocks they wrote about the CEH neonics study in 2017 - Pesticides damage survival of bee colonies, landmark study shows). In central London, it would appear that there are too many beekeepers trying to 'save the bees'. All credit to Dale Gibson of Bermondsey bees for realising this and moving his hives away from the centre of London (and worth listening to him on the BBC World Service BBC World Service - The Food Chain, Life lessons from the honey bee).You first. Instead of just throwing a link at us, you first
if the problem, as they perceieve it, is that there is not enough forage