Bee Friendly Brum
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
Birmingham residents who care about our pollinator pals 🐝
Share ideas about helpful action, both personally & collectively, to influence local people & policy and decrease pesticide use to save the planet
we did this: https://bit.ly/BeeFriendlyBrum1
Share ideas about helpful action, both personally & collectively, to influence local people & policy and decrease pesticide use to save the planet
we did this: https://bit.ly/BeeFriendlyBrum1
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Bee Friendly Brum – pollinator protectors
Local campaigners share how glyphosate is harmful to bees and other pollinators, and how local residents can help their cause to make Birmingham pesticide-free.
centralbylines.co.uk
This was us in 2022: Bee Friendly Brum – pollinator protectors
centralbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
centralbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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Birmingham isn't just concrete - it has a green heart. 🌳💚
We’re so proud to share this short film celebrating the incredible volunteers who help to keep our city’s parks and open spaces thriving.
Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Brum #Birmingham #CommunityPower #Volunteer
We’re so proud to share this short film celebrating the incredible volunteers who help to keep our city’s parks and open spaces thriving.
Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Brum #Birmingham #CommunityPower #Volunteer
The Green Heart of Birmingham: Celebrating Our Open Spaces Volunteers
The Green Heart of Birmingham shines a light on Birmingham Open Spaces Forum's incredible network of volunteers who help keep the city’s parks and open spaces thriving
Birmingham is lucky to have so much green space for people to enjoy, and at the centre of it all are volunteers who quietly show up
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Birmingham isn't just concrete - it has a green heart. 🌳💚
We’re so proud to share this short film celebrating the incredible volunteers who help to keep our city’s parks and open spaces thriving.
Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Brum #Birmingham #CommunityPower #Volunteer
We’re so proud to share this short film celebrating the incredible volunteers who help to keep our city’s parks and open spaces thriving.
Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Brum #Birmingham #CommunityPower #Volunteer
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Doing the Big Garden Birdwatch and trying to work out how many long tailed tits to log here @rspb.bsky.social?
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
January 24, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Doing the Big Garden Birdwatch and trying to work out how many long tailed tits to log here @rspb.bsky.social?
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
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There should be more competitiveness between counties in the @rspb.bsky.social's Big Garden Birdwatch
Also maybe a participation count by percentage not just numbers?
Also maybe a participation count by percentage not just numbers?
Here are the standings, midday on the middle day of the RSPB's #BigGardenBirdwatch 2026
Top bird: House Sparrow in the lead, Blue Tit making a good show but third place murmurs from Starling
Top contributors: Yorkshire and Lancashire with a 21C War of the Roses
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Top bird: House Sparrow in the lead, Blue Tit making a good show but third place murmurs from Starling
Top contributors: Yorkshire and Lancashire with a 21C War of the Roses
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
January 24, 2026 at 1:10 PM
There should be more competitiveness between counties in the @rspb.bsky.social's Big Garden Birdwatch
Also maybe a participation count by percentage not just numbers?
Also maybe a participation count by percentage not just numbers?
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January 24, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Doing the Big Garden Birdwatch and trying to work out how many long tailed tits to log here @rspb.bsky.social?
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
January 24, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Doing the Big Garden Birdwatch and trying to work out how many long tailed tits to log here @rspb.bsky.social?
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
#BigGardenBirdwatch #BGB2026
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The Fruit and Nut Village movement brings the farm to the city, urban orchards in pocket parks.
Involving the community in growing food on our doorstep.
One day they turned up on my street with free fruit trees, lifted slabs, planted
keeping English traditions alive - wassailing to wake the trees
Involving the community in growing food on our doorstep.
One day they turned up on my street with free fruit trees, lifted slabs, planted
keeping English traditions alive - wassailing to wake the trees
Sometimes when I find myself in dialogue with English Nationalists who say that immigrants don't integrate and follow our traditions, I ask them when they last went Wassailing, and they usually just say "You what?"
#Wassail #WakeTheTrees
#Wassail #WakeTheTrees
January 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The Fruit and Nut Village movement brings the farm to the city, urban orchards in pocket parks.
Involving the community in growing food on our doorstep.
One day they turned up on my street with free fruit trees, lifted slabs, planted
keeping English traditions alive - wassailing to wake the trees
Involving the community in growing food on our doorstep.
One day they turned up on my street with free fruit trees, lifted slabs, planted
keeping English traditions alive - wassailing to wake the trees
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Fruit & Nut Village is an excellent charity based in Birmingham. They are growing orchards & perennial food spaces, and work with local communities to "develop a range of edible landscapes".
They currently manage around 70-80 growing spaces in total, across Balsall Heath, Druids Heath and Stirchley.
They currently manage around 70-80 growing spaces in total, across Balsall Heath, Druids Heath and Stirchley.
January 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Fruit & Nut Village is an excellent charity based in Birmingham. They are growing orchards & perennial food spaces, and work with local communities to "develop a range of edible landscapes".
They currently manage around 70-80 growing spaces in total, across Balsall Heath, Druids Heath and Stirchley.
They currently manage around 70-80 growing spaces in total, across Balsall Heath, Druids Heath and Stirchley.
WASSAIL! Fruit and Nut Village's Stirchley Wassail 2026!
Back at Birmingham Brewing Co. for 2026 with music, poetry, + dance from 3PM, as well as stalls from charities around Birmingham.
The procession to wake the trees will be later that evening. Bring a light + noisemaker + warm clothes + footwear
Back at Birmingham Brewing Co. for 2026 with music, poetry, + dance from 3PM, as well as stalls from charities around Birmingham.
The procession to wake the trees will be later that evening. Bring a light + noisemaker + warm clothes + footwear
Stirchley WASSAIL!
Fruit & Nut Village Stirchley Wassail is back & bigger than ever! We have a fantastic line up of artists & a procession to wake the trees.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
WASSAIL! Fruit and Nut Village's Stirchley Wassail 2026!
Back at Birmingham Brewing Co. for 2026 with music, poetry, + dance from 3PM, as well as stalls from charities around Birmingham.
The procession to wake the trees will be later that evening. Bring a light + noisemaker + warm clothes + footwear
Back at Birmingham Brewing Co. for 2026 with music, poetry, + dance from 3PM, as well as stalls from charities around Birmingham.
The procession to wake the trees will be later that evening. Bring a light + noisemaker + warm clothes + footwear
this is a mad temperature differential if true
BBC Weather for Birmingham
Tonight min. -1°
Sunday 9° 8°
Monday 11° 7°
we've got an inch of ice out there now after Storm Goretti
BBC Weather for Birmingham
Tonight min. -1°
Sunday 9° 8°
Monday 11° 7°
we've got an inch of ice out there now after Storm Goretti
January 10, 2026 at 10:52 PM
this is a mad temperature differential if true
BBC Weather for Birmingham
Tonight min. -1°
Sunday 9° 8°
Monday 11° 7°
we've got an inch of ice out there now after Storm Goretti
BBC Weather for Birmingham
Tonight min. -1°
Sunday 9° 8°
Monday 11° 7°
we've got an inch of ice out there now after Storm Goretti
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
This year in south central Birmingham we have sleek rats living under the garden toolstore + cute voles and mice in the woodpile, all growing fat off the veg waste in the old council compost bin and the nuts + seeds that fall from the bird feeders.
We also have several owls now.
Me every day:
We also have several owls now.
Me every day:
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This year in south central Birmingham we have sleek rats living under the garden toolstore + cute voles and mice in the woodpile, all growing fat off the veg waste in the old council compost bin and the nuts + seeds that fall from the bird feeders.
We also have several owls now.
Me every day:
We also have several owls now.
Me every day:
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Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
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When you tell your mum you like bumblebees …
All items are available on our online shop and support UK bumblebee conservation. Tell your mum.
🐝🎁 https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/gift-guide/
All items are available on our online shop and support UK bumblebee conservation. Tell your mum.
🐝🎁 https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/gift-guide/
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
When you tell your mum you like bumblebees …
All items are available on our online shop and support UK bumblebee conservation. Tell your mum.
🐝🎁 https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/gift-guide/
All items are available on our online shop and support UK bumblebee conservation. Tell your mum.
🐝🎁 https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/gift-guide/
Populist opposition to climate action makes extreme weather events more likely.
Despite the fear and disruption that populists stoke, we mustn’t lose sight of the need to act, write Juliet Dobson, @drsophiecook.bsky.social, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
#BMJClimate
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Despite the fear and disruption that populists stoke, we mustn’t lose sight of the need to act, write Juliet Dobson, @drsophiecook.bsky.social, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
#BMJClimate
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Announcing the Million Frog March!
savethefrogs.com/million
Join frog enthusiasts worldwide for a historic gathering to defend democracy, freedom of speech, peace, amphibian conservation & environmental protection. Please spread the word!
#MillionFrogMarch #SaveTheFrogs #WashingtonDC #PortlandFrog
savethefrogs.com/million
Join frog enthusiasts worldwide for a historic gathering to defend democracy, freedom of speech, peace, amphibian conservation & environmental protection. Please spread the word!
#MillionFrogMarch #SaveTheFrogs #WashingtonDC #PortlandFrog
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Announcing the Million Frog March!
savethefrogs.com/million
Join frog enthusiasts worldwide for a historic gathering to defend democracy, freedom of speech, peace, amphibian conservation & environmental protection. Please spread the word!
#MillionFrogMarch #SaveTheFrogs #WashingtonDC #PortlandFrog
savethefrogs.com/million
Join frog enthusiasts worldwide for a historic gathering to defend democracy, freedom of speech, peace, amphibian conservation & environmental protection. Please spread the word!
#MillionFrogMarch #SaveTheFrogs #WashingtonDC #PortlandFrog
Green education support
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Green education support
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Birmingham Friends of The Earth show us a green way forward
@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social
#Retrofit
@birminghamlive.bsky.social
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social
@bhamwatch.bsky.social
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
@xrbham.bsky.social
#Birmingham
#FossilFuelNonproliferationTreaty
fossilfueltreaty.org
@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social
#Retrofit
@birminghamlive.bsky.social
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social
@bhamwatch.bsky.social
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
@xrbham.bsky.social
#Birmingham
#FossilFuelNonproliferationTreaty
fossilfueltreaty.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Birmingham Friends of The Earth show us a green way forward
@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social
#Retrofit
@birminghamlive.bsky.social
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social
@bhamwatch.bsky.social
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
@xrbham.bsky.social
#Birmingham
#FossilFuelNonproliferationTreaty
fossilfueltreaty.org
@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social
#Retrofit
@birminghamlive.bsky.social
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social
@bhamwatch.bsky.social
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
@xrbham.bsky.social
#Birmingham
#FossilFuelNonproliferationTreaty
fossilfueltreaty.org
Nearly half of the UK’s garden space is paved over, a new study has found.
The RHS has conducted the largest ever audit of the UK’s gardens, and found that they are an untapped – and until now, mostly unmeasured – potential resource for nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The RHS has conducted the largest ever audit of the UK’s gardens, and found that they are an untapped – and until now, mostly unmeasured – potential resource for nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nearly half of UK garden space is paved over, RHS study finds
Homeowners urged to use more robust planting and permeable materials to help mitigate flood risk
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Nearly half of the UK’s garden space is paved over, a new study has found.
The RHS has conducted the largest ever audit of the UK’s gardens, and found that they are an untapped – and until now, mostly unmeasured – potential resource for nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The RHS has conducted the largest ever audit of the UK’s gardens, and found that they are an untapped – and until now, mostly unmeasured – potential resource for nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Harlequin ladybirds are swarming UK houses this week - Like many insects, ladybirds enter a state of inactivity over winter known as diapause – an insect version of hibernation.
Different species like to overwinter in different environments - harlequins in our homes and seven-spots in leaf litter."
Different species like to overwinter in different environments - harlequins in our homes and seven-spots in leaf litter."
Why so many ladybirds are swarming UK houses
With social media reports of harlequin ladybirds invading UK homes this week, Elizabeth Rizzini explains why the weather means some ladybirds are on the move.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"Harlequin ladybirds are swarming UK houses this week - Like many insects, ladybirds enter a state of inactivity over winter known as diapause – an insect version of hibernation.
Different species like to overwinter in different environments - harlequins in our homes and seven-spots in leaf litter."
Different species like to overwinter in different environments - harlequins in our homes and seven-spots in leaf litter."
Planting trees in neighborhoods have a host of health and social benefits. They even reduce crime! www.motherjones.com/environment/...
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Yet another reason why we need to protect bees 🐝💕
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/bee-venom-co...
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/bee-venom-co...
Bee venom could help treat a type of cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S., with the exception of skin cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.
www.newsweek.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yet another reason why we need to protect bees 🐝💕
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/bee-venom-co...
@beefriendlybrum.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/bee-venom-co...
@thebeeguy.bsky.social any ideas?
What appears to be 3 'layers' of honeycomb, attached to the top of the yew hedge outside of our apartment. In the open
Can't say I've ever seen this before. Does anyone have any info on this occurring? And which species it might have been made from
#bees
#ukbees
#@ecorecord.bsky.social
Can't say I've ever seen this before. Does anyone have any info on this occurring? And which species it might have been made from
#bees
#ukbees
#@ecorecord.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@thebeeguy.bsky.social any ideas?
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Bumblebees #sleeping on/in #flowers at this time of year!
What the feck is that all about?
Lots of people asking us so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.
Please #repost/#share so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
#nature
#biodiversity
#worldbeesanctuary
1/16
What the feck is that all about?
Lots of people asking us so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.
Please #repost/#share so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
#nature
#biodiversity
#worldbeesanctuary
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August 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Bumblebees #sleeping on/in #flowers at this time of year!
What the feck is that all about?
Lots of people asking us so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.
Please #repost/#share so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
#nature
#biodiversity
#worldbeesanctuary
1/16
What the feck is that all about?
Lots of people asking us so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.
Please #repost/#share so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
#nature
#biodiversity
#worldbeesanctuary
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