UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme
@pomscheme.bsky.social
A partnership working with many volunteers to gather data on insect pollinator populations in the UK. Led by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Find out more at https://ukpoms.org.uk/
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The UK PoMS Annual Report 2024 is out now, celebrating the start of @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek!
Huge thanks to all who have contributed. Read lots more in the thread below 👇 and find the full report here ukpoms.org.uk/reports
Huge thanks to all who have contributed. Read lots more in the thread below 👇 and find the full report here ukpoms.org.uk/reports
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Mapping spatial and temporal patterns of pesticide risk to #pollinators and other #inverts across England - I’ve enjoyed working on this important new resource for research into past changes and future risks from @francescamancini.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 🐝👇
A paper in Environment International led by me and Melanie Gibbs and a team of @ukceh.bsky.social scientists provides spatio-temporal maps of the risks of #pesticides to terrestrial #invertebrates. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Mapping spatial and temporal patterns of pesticide risk to #pollinators and other #inverts across England - I’ve enjoyed working on this important new resource for research into past changes and future risks from @francescamancini.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 🐝👇
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Seen the programme for our #NPMS10 anniversary online event? Join for all or part of the day. Talks by
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@jncc.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.org.uk
@chilternsnl.bsky.social
plus talks from our amazing volunteers! ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@jncc.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.org.uk
@chilternsnl.bsky.social
plus talks from our amazing volunteers! ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Seen the programme for our #NPMS10 anniversary online event? Join for all or part of the day. Talks by
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@jncc.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.org.uk
@chilternsnl.bsky.social
plus talks from our amazing volunteers! ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@jncc.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.org.uk
@chilternsnl.bsky.social
plus talks from our amazing volunteers! ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE
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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
Pollinators need more space and 10% habitat is not enough says a new study just published in Science
Pollinators such as wild bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science and led by Gabriella Bishop and other scientists at Wageningen Universit…
jeffollerton.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...
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Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.
♨️Live #BGEconnects
@clairecarvell.bsky.social and @marakat.bsky.social talked about DNAbarcoding for large-scale #insect community biomonitoring: “DNA-based species discovery can indeed transform taxonomic uncertainty from a barrier into a structured pathway for improved biodiversity intelligence.”
@clairecarvell.bsky.social and @marakat.bsky.social talked about DNAbarcoding for large-scale #insect community biomonitoring: “DNA-based species discovery can indeed transform taxonomic uncertainty from a barrier into a structured pathway for improved biodiversity intelligence.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.
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Faded beauty. A few Adonis Blues still going on the Purbeck Ridge yesterday, also great to see the recovery of the food plant Horseshoe Vetch after the drought, which left them shrivelled. In just 3 weeks they are now green and vigorous. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Faded beauty. A few Adonis Blues still going on the Purbeck Ridge yesterday, also great to see the recovery of the food plant Horseshoe Vetch after the drought, which left them shrivelled. In just 3 weeks they are now green and vigorous. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
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Many bumblebee colonies are winding down. New queens are leaving the nest to hibernate, ready to start fresh colonies next spring. Late species like Bombus pascuorum can still be seen foraging into autumn.
#PollinatingLT
#PollinatingLT
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Many bumblebee colonies are winding down. New queens are leaving the nest to hibernate, ready to start fresh colonies next spring. Late species like Bombus pascuorum can still be seen foraging into autumn.
#PollinatingLT
#PollinatingLT
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Only a few tickets left for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme 50th Anniversary Conference!
We're looking forward to celebrating 50 incredible years of butterfly monitoring and volunteer achievement. 🎉🦋
Book your free place 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
#UKBMS50
We're looking forward to celebrating 50 incredible years of butterfly monitoring and volunteer achievement. 🎉🦋
Book your free place 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
#UKBMS50
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Only a few tickets left for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme 50th Anniversary Conference!
We're looking forward to celebrating 50 incredible years of butterfly monitoring and volunteer achievement. 🎉🦋
Book your free place 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
#UKBMS50
We're looking forward to celebrating 50 incredible years of butterfly monitoring and volunteer achievement. 🎉🦋
Book your free place 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
#UKBMS50
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The @pomscheme.bsky.social recording season ends for the year in one week (30 Sep)! Check the weather conditions where you are before spending 10 minutes watching flowers & insects.
If you have ivy flowers in your garden, they are a fantastic target flower right now!
ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts 🐝🧪
If you have ivy flowers in your garden, they are a fantastic target flower right now!
ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts 🐝🧪
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The @pomscheme.bsky.social recording season ends for the year in one week (30 Sep)! Check the weather conditions where you are before spending 10 minutes watching flowers & insects.
If you have ivy flowers in your garden, they are a fantastic target flower right now!
ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts 🐝🧪
If you have ivy flowers in your garden, they are a fantastic target flower right now!
ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts 🐝🧪
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The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝
Well done to @whitmuir1.bsky.social for completing their fourth PoMS 1km square survey for 2025! It’s looking like a wet week ahead but still time to fit in final surveys before mid-September 🤞🐝
Fourth and final 2025 visit to my @pomscheme.bsky.social
square on arable land. Still not much in the way of flowers about. Several butterflies in the pantraps. Harvestmen helping with form filling. @ukceh.bsky.social
square on arable land. Still not much in the way of flowers about. Several butterflies in the pantraps. Harvestmen helping with form filling. @ukceh.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Well done to @whitmuir1.bsky.social for completing their fourth PoMS 1km square survey for 2025! It’s looking like a wet week ahead but still time to fit in final surveys before mid-September 🤞🐝
We're on track for our highest ever total of FIT Counts this year 👏🎉 - a huge thank you to everyone taking part 🙏 And there's still a month to go! All counts up to the end of September will add to the data for this year and help us monitor changes in #pollinator numbers.
August 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We're on track for our highest ever total of FIT Counts this year 👏🎉 - a huge thank you to everyone taking part 🙏 And there's still a month to go! All counts up to the end of September will add to the data for this year and help us monitor changes in #pollinator numbers.
The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe
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I do love this story - pollinators pathways and more green corridors make a huge difference. So much going on to get #rebuggingtheplanet
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Bee buffets’: the pollinator pathways turning drab alleys into insect havens
Corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I do love this story - pollinators pathways and more green corridors make a huge difference. So much going on to get #rebuggingtheplanet
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Join us at the UKBMS 50th Anniversary Conference!
We can't wait to celebrate this milestone yr 🎂 Join us for a day of butterfly science, celebrations and chatting with other butterfly enthusiasts.
Book your free place - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
Places are limited, book soon!
#UKBMS50
We can't wait to celebrate this milestone yr 🎂 Join us for a day of butterfly science, celebrations and chatting with other butterfly enthusiasts.
Book your free place - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
Places are limited, book soon!
#UKBMS50
August 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Join us at the UKBMS 50th Anniversary Conference!
We can't wait to celebrate this milestone yr 🎂 Join us for a day of butterfly science, celebrations and chatting with other butterfly enthusiasts.
Book your free place - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
Places are limited, book soon!
#UKBMS50
We can't wait to celebrate this milestone yr 🎂 Join us for a day of butterfly science, celebrations and chatting with other butterfly enthusiasts.
Book your free place - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...
Places are limited, book soon!
#UKBMS50
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Interesting paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data to examine extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations. Winter heatwaves and periods of high rainfall appear bad for many species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍
Butterfly abundance changes in England are well associated with extreme climate events
Climate change exerts significant impacts on ecosystems through extreme climate events (ECEs), which are linked to various climate variables and can o…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Interesting paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data to examine extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations. Winter heatwaves and periods of high rainfall appear bad for many species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍
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Yesterday we were out catching and marking pollinators on three rooftops, two of them more than 10 stories high, to see if they were travelling between them!
#PollinatingLT
#PollinatingLT
August 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Yesterday we were out catching and marking pollinators on three rooftops, two of them more than 10 stories high, to see if they were travelling between them!
#PollinatingLT
#PollinatingLT
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What moths live on farmland?
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What moths live on farmland?
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
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Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
August 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
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Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour
Including a few blooms with wee beasties for the #PollinatorPals challenge.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95
Including a few blooms with wee beasties for the #PollinatorPals challenge.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95
August 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour
Including a few blooms with wee beasties for the #PollinatorPals challenge.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95
Including a few blooms with wee beasties for the #PollinatorPals challenge.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95
The theme for yesterday's #WildFlowerHour was #PollinatorPals - check the tag for some great examples of pollinators in action, from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, and if you've enjoyed watching pollinators have a go at counting them with a PoMS FIT Count ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
August 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The theme for yesterday's #WildFlowerHour was #PollinatorPals - check the tag for some great examples of pollinators in action, from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, and if you've enjoyed watching pollinators have a go at counting them with a PoMS FIT Count ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
Second of 2 examples from our brilliant volunteers, gathering structured data from habitats far and wide - thank you Mariko 🙏 and check out our Annual Reports for more information about how these data are used ukpoms.org.uk/reports
August 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Second of 2 examples from our brilliant volunteers, gathering structured data from habitats far and wide - thank you Mariko 🙏 and check out our Annual Reports for more information about how these data are used ukpoms.org.uk/reports
First of 2 examples of the fantastic contribution made by the PoMS volunteers - thank you Andrew 🙏 and I wonder what the total number of steps would be across all our sample squares? It could be the next fitness trend 🚶♂️🏃♀️
My 4th and final @pomscheme.bsky.social survey yesterday at my site in north Carmarthenshire. 15000 steps. Data entered this morning, samples parcelled up for posting and owners thanked. And that's me done for 2025.
August 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
First of 2 examples of the fantastic contribution made by the PoMS volunteers - thank you Andrew 🙏 and I wonder what the total number of steps would be across all our sample squares? It could be the next fitness trend 🚶♂️🏃♀️