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• Why we don’t recommend wildflower seed mixes – the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan wildflower seed homepages

• Spreading Seeds of Doubt – fake ‘wildflower’ mixes  – By Dr Noeleen Smyth, National Botanic Gardens

• Why I don’t plant wildflower seed – By Dr Úna FitzPatrick, All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
  
  
• Why ‘wildflower seed’ is a prickly issue – By Prof Yvonne Buckley, Trinity College Dublin
  
  
• Debunking myths – The truth about seed bombs, beehives, and bee hotels – your questions answered
  
  
• Reducing mowing for pollinators – brilliant for bees, harder for humans! – the joys and pitfalls of creating a wildflower meadow
  
  
• Don’t mow, let it grow – and amazing things will happen! – how reducing grass cutting gives our native wildflowers a chance to bloom
  
  
• Practical advice on managing wildflower meadows – how natural meadows are flourishing under management practices of the Irish Wildlife Trust Laois/Offaly branch – By Anne Sundermann, Ricky Whelan and Brian Gaynor 
  
  
• Creating a lawn spiral for pollinators – reduce mowing and create creative paths through your meadow
  
  
• Is your action for pollinators making a difference?   You can help by tracking changes in insect pollinator populations
  
  
• Wildflowers – to plant or not to plant? Why buying wildflower seed is not always helpful– By Prof Jane Stout, Botany Dept, Trinity College Dublin
  
  
• Summer bedding – making the switch to pollinator-friendly bedding plants– By Peter Cuthbert, Horticultural Services
  
  
• Does the lockdown bring any silver linings? – Rare orchids return as mowing stops– By Dr Mark McCorry & Dr Fiona MacGowan, BSBI

How various sectors are helping pollinators:

FARMLAND:

• Working together with farmers to help pollinators

COUNCILS:

• Some recent case studies on helping pollinators from Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
  
  
• 55% of Councils have become partners with the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
  
  
• TECHNICAL BLOG: Designing a pollinator-friendly roundabout
  
  
• Ennis Tidy Towns transform roundabouts into wildlife havens

• New AIPP Businesses: actions to help pollinators guidelines
• Case studies: AIPP business supporters
• Raise awareness of pollinators in your ‘value chain’
• Pollinator-friendly procurement
• Sponsorship for pollinators
• Guidelines for new housing developments (Cluid supported by the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan)
• Step by step for Agri-food processors and their farm suppliers/growers
• Car parks for pollinators
• The business of helping pollinators

TRANSPORT CORRIDORS:

• Life on the edge – Donna Rainey, founder of the ‘Don’t Mow, Let it Grow’ project

COMMUNITIES:

• Creating a Pollinator Corridor in Ballincollig
  
  
• Communities helping our endangered pollinators
  
  
• Monaghan’s ‘Dispersed Urban Orchard’ for Pollinators
  
  

• Creating ecological corridors in Bruff

• Sneem – counting their
 bumblebees and their awards

• Kilkenny – Keep Kilkenny Beautiful community group is building a bee-friendly city

• Belmullet & the Great Yellow Bumblebee

• Ennis proves you can feed the bees and still win the Tidiest Town award!

• Geashill – still winning in the fight for pollinators

• Tullahought – a village for pollinators

• Buncrana Tidy Towns still buzzing for Bees

• Businesses and residents helping bees in Dunboyne