One of two Humming-bird Hawk-moths in the North Pennines yesterday! 🦋 Both were nectaring on Melancholy Thistle along a road verge. Such amazing moths! 🥰 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @northpennines.bsky.social

North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝 🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted 🔎 15 species recorded 🥾 84 miles walked A huge thank you for your support & donations for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! Notebook is full of sightings for @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt! www.justgiving.com/page/charlot...

North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝 🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted 🔎 15 species recorded 🥾 84 miles walked A huge thank you for your support & donations for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! Notebook is full of sightings for @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt! www.justgiving.com/page/charlot...

Final leg of my North-bumble-land Coast Walk! 🐝🥾 Super windy but that doesn’t stop the Moss Carders! 💛 Hoping to reach 1,000 bumblebees by the time I get to Berwick! 📝 #Pollin8 #NorthEastBeeHunt @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @nenature.bsky.social

Budle Bay to Beal for North-bumble-land Walk Day 5️⃣! The Northumberland Coast Path heads inland for this section. I didn't want to leave the sea! But different habitat to explore & two new species for my walk: White-tailed & Gypsy Cuckoo! 🐝 931 bumblebees 🔎 15 species 🚶‍♀️ 172,356 steps ... so far!

I'm currently walking the Northumberland Coast Path for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣 Along the way, I’m sharing my sightings with @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt 📝🔎 At the end of Day 4 yesterday, so far... 🐝 746 bumblebees counted 🔎 13 species recorded 🚶‍♀️ 132,958 steps for bumbles!

Love #bumblebees? Then you probably know they're in crisis and need our help You can help by supporting the very lovely @bumble-being.bsky.social raise funds for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social as she walks the Northumberland Coast Path 🐝 👣 Please donate here 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/charlot...

Charlotte's North-bumble-land Walk 🐝

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I'm currently bumbling along the Northumberland Coast for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣 Along the way, I’m sharing my sightings with @nenature.bsky.social’s #NorthEastBeeHunt 📝🔎 ...372 bumbles of 12 species so far! Thank you so much for donations so far, the bumbles & I are very grateful!

Charlotte's North-bumble-land Walk 🐝

Help Charlotte Rankin raise money to support Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Tomorrow! 🐝👣📝🔎⤵️

Charlotte Rankin@bumble-being.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm bumbling along the Northumberland Coast Path for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣 & along the way, I’ll be sharing my bumblebee sightings with @nenature.bsky.social’s North East Bee Hunt 📝🔎 Please share, or donate if you can, to support my ‘North-bumble-land’ Walk this June! ⤵️

Just over three weeks to go! 🐝

Charlotte Rankin@bumble-being.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm bumbling along the Northumberland Coast Path for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣 & along the way, I’ll be sharing my bumblebee sightings with @nenature.bsky.social’s North East Bee Hunt 📝🔎 Please share, or donate if you can, to support my ‘North-bumble-land’ Walk this June! ⤵️

Good news for bee-flies! They have been reported much more frequently this year, and in mid-April we have already had more 2025 records than we did for the whole of 2024, for both Dark-edged and Dotted Bee-flies. This is likely to be due to the much sunnier weather this year. #BeeFlyWatch 1/4

The first of the worker bumblebees! Tree, Early, Red-tailed and Heath Bumblebees all enjoying Dandelion! The first workers are teeny! As the season progresses, workers increase in size with more food & helpers in the nest to feed them as larvae 💛 @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Thank you for taking up a #Pollin8 challenge for the bumblebees! Wishing you the best of luck @bumblebees.bsky.social 🐝

Charlotte Rankin@bumble-being.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm bumbling along the Northumberland Coast Path for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣 & along the way, I’ll be sharing my bumblebee sightings with @nenature.bsky.social’s North East Bee Hunt 📝🔎 Please share, or donate if you can, to support my ‘North-bumble-land’ Walk this June! ⤵️

I'm bumbling along the Northumberland Coast Path for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣 & along the way, I’ll be sharing my bumblebee sightings with @nenature.bsky.social’s North East Bee Hunt 📝🔎 Please share, or donate if you can, to support my ‘North-bumble-land’ Walk this June! ⤵️

Charlotte's North-bumble-land Walk 🐝

Help Charlotte Rankin raise money to support Bumblebee Conservation Trust

justgiving.com

Hairy-footeds are back! 💛 One of a few males enjoying the Pulmonaria at Alnwick Garden today (in-between hailstone showers!) 🐝

My idea of a fun Friday night out 🐸😂 Counted 121! toads along the wetland footpaths at Gosling Sike yesterday evening @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

Nothing quite beats the joy of seeing my first queen bumblebee of the year! 😭💛 A lovely queen Tree Bumblebee, soon followed by Early and Buff-tailed! After what was such a tough year for bumbles, seeing the first queens out and about fills my heart with so much joy 💛 @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

A lovely way to start the year! 🌱🔎

James Common@commonbynature.bsky.social · 2y ago

Out and about for a final #NewYearPlantHunt with @nenature.bsky.social members. 43 species on the streets of Heaton, including my first Snowdrop and Early Crocus of the year 😁🌻

A very soggy and windy #NewYearPlantHunt with Cumbria Wildlife Trust volunteers and staff today! 🔎 We wandered locally from our northern office, spotting 17 species in flower before heading back for some warm drinks and festive nibbles! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

26 species in flower from a wander around an industrial estate for the #NewYearPlantHunt 🌱 📸 Meadow Foxtail, Narrow-leaved Ragwort, and a surprise Bee Orchid rosette along the way! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

We have been rummaging through our Bug Bunkers for The Buzz Club with volunteers 🔎 We were amazed to find this little Christmas bauble attached to a leaf! We think it’s the egg sac of a pirate spider (Ero sp.) 🕷️🥚 @davegoulson.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

A species high up on my fungi bucket list! 🍄 The temperate rainforest specialist Hazel Gloves! 🤩 Explored a lovely Atlantic Hazelwood in #Argyll earlier this week. While found on Hazel it’s actually parasitic on another fungus, Glue Crust!