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Lessons from the 2023 Wild Bee Festival

1st September 2023

By Kate Chandler, Communities and Engagement Pollinator Officer for the National Biodiversity Data Centre. On the 12th and 13th of August, Tralee hosted the second ever Wild Bee Festival on … Continued

Managing Urban Parks for Pollinators and People

25th August 2023

By Roisin Gowen This research was conducted as part of an undergraduate project by Roisin Gowen at Trinity College Dublin, who assessed different park management strategies and how they impacted plant and pollinator diversity, and urban park users’ relationships with … Continued

Blarney Street Pollinator Path

23rd August 2023

Molly Garvey, of the Blarney Street Pollinator Path group, tells us about how a neighbourhood came together to help pollinators in Cork City It started with a rotten fence. In the second week of the first pandemic lockdown in … Continued

Rare pollinators using the long-flowering meadows in Tramore

3rd July 2023

The dunes at Tramore in County Waterford are home to the rare Large Carder Bee (Bombus muscorum). This bumblebee is listed as vulnerable in the European Bee Red List. When we established the All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme in 2012, I … Continued

Orchid delight at Trinity College

30th June 2023

By Prof. Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan has been supporting and advocating #NoMowMay, an initiative to reduce the mowing regime in private and public lawns, and allow wildflowers to bloom, for several years, with some incredible … Continued

Mapping a Carlow Town Pollinator Foraging Network

16th June 2023

Shane Casey, Environmental Awareness Officer for Carlow County Council, tells us about a new management tool for helping pollinators in urban areas. In April, 2023, Carlow County Council adopted their County Carlow Green Infrastructure Strategy, which contained a novel approach … Continued

Pitches for Pollinators: How schools can help bees over the summer

9th June 2023

This summer, the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is inviting schools to help save the bees by taking part in ‘Pitches for Pollinators’. This campaign aims to help Ireland’s pollinators like wild bees by leaving school pitches unmown over the summer, … Continued

Pollinator research continues to flourish

18th May 2023

Update provided by Prof. Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin This blog is part of the ‘Dispatches from Researchers’ series, which features guest articles written by experts in pollination and related fields. In 2022, we published a research update … Continued

Favourite Food for Wild Bees in 2022

1st March 2023

Every year, the National Biodiversity Data Centre receives hundreds of bee sightings from all over the island of Ireland. In 2022, 1,482 bee records were submitted, including information about what the bee was feeding on. Wild bees are in trouble … Continued

Helping Biodiversity at Lacken Church

28th February 2023

By Carmel O’Neill, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Lacken, Co. Wicklow Spring In late February 2022, we planted 22m of Whitethorn hedging along the boundary wall of Lacken Church as part of our ongoing project to improve the … Continued

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