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We are a citizen science group run out of the University of Sussex and directed by Prof. Dave Goulson.

We create experiments to investigate how we can best use gardens for insect conservation 🪲🐝 come get involved!
May 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
May 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our next webinar in our Sussex Research Series!

Dr. Ciaran Harris will be discussing how the honeybee can inform us about the seasons of the year that contain shortages of nectar or pollen. He will also explore how this information can improve our efforts to help bees & other pollinators.

Link 👇
April 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Did you miss @dave.goulson Entolive webinar yesterday? Want to hear about the results of The Big Bee Hotel Experiment 2024?

You can watch the whole webinar for free here: youtu.be/6c_YhzKD0mo?...
April 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Have you visited our new Community Blog on our website?

Comment with your views and opinions, hear from others in our Community, and learn more from like-minded people ✨

Blog: www.thebuzzclub.uk/ourcommunity
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April 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The Big Bee Hotel Experiment
Project
Give it a go!
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April 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Still time to make a clay hotel for the very lovely hairy-footed flower bee!
youtu.be/o1w8_6ctgZ0
Make a clay bee hotel for hairy-footed flower bees
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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April 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Join Linda for a light-hearted look into some of her favourite strange insect stories, and find out:

😍about the anarchic ways of French chafer beetles
😍why Australia has monuments to moths
😍that time bee poo caused an international incident...

Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...
April 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We are very excited to have been featured in hashtag#WildAboutGardens article on how to become a hashtag#HoverflyHero. Thanks to The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society for supporting our Hoverfly Lagoon project.
Be a hoverfly hero | Wild About Gardens
Hoverflies are a vital part of our wildlife, but like other insects they need our help.
www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Find out more about the impact of pet flea treatments on nesting birds with University of Sussex researcher Dr Cannelle Tassin de Montaigu, thursday evening, online, sign up below.
www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...
Buy tickets – From pets to nests: exploring the impact of flea treatments on birds – Zoom
This event is part of our Sussex Research series. In this series, University of Sussex PhD students and Post-Docs are invited t...
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March 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
How many crocuses have you planted this year?
#CrocusChallenge returns!

2024: 3333 crocuses planted 😍

Instructions:

🌷Plant your crocuses

🌷When they bloom, share your photos on socials by tagging us and #CrocusChallenge or email them to us at buzzclub@sussex.ac.uk

🌷Comment on this post with how many crocuses you have planted!
February 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thanks for such a lovely review 😍
Such an adorable talk this was: Earwigs don't go back to earwig hotels because of the quality, but instead if an earwig is currently happy inside and releasing pheromones ie, "currently giving it a good review" others in range will visit it. 😂
February 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#CrocusChallenge returns!

2024: 3333 crocuses planted 😍

Instructions:

🌷Plant your crocuses

🌷When they bloom, share your photos on socials by tagging us and #CrocusChallenge or email them to us at buzzclub@sussex.ac.uk

🌷Comment on this post with how many crocuses you have planted!
February 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It’s tonight!! Come and join us for an earwig evening!
Earwi’GO! ran from 2021 – 2024, focusing on making earwig ‘hotels’ (day time shelters) from easily-available materials. Join us for the Earwi’GO! retrospective, where our volunteers encounter record heatwaves, slug sabotage, wandering wiglets and the distracting allure of rattan lamps

Link below!
February 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Another fun find for our Bug Bunkers Project - O. villosa is one of the largest springtails in the UK, reaching up to 5mm in length.

We now have recorded 7375 individual invertebrates as part of this survey - and still one month to go!

Thanks to Sabina George for this photo.
February 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Who knew a barkfly nymph could be so adorable!?

A find from our Bug Bunkers project by Harriet & Tej - thanks 😍

Barkflies are an important part of your garden ecosystem - they make tasty snacks for predatory insects, spiders and some birds!

#citizenscience #research #bugs #critters #nymph #baby
February 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Over 60 webinars in, which entoLIVEs have proven most popular? It seems that 🐝subjects attract the most live attendees, but less popular groups do better in the long-run. Interesting.

#entomology #invertebrates #SciComms

Catch up on previous webinars here: biologicalrecording.co.uk/category/ent...
February 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Today's 'Slightly Cursed Powerpoint Image' = the latest variation of my Earwi'GO! mascot.
Graphic design / my passion / etc 😆
(For the upcoming Earwi'GO! webinar with @buzzclub.bsky.social; info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...)
#entomology #citizenscience #earwigs #wildlifegardening
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🔔Introducing: The Buzz Club's Sussex Research Webinar Series! 🔔

Our first talk is called 'Meadow Spittlebug, the 'Foam Lover'!' and will be delivered by Susmita Aown.

Book your ticket now: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...

#research #phd #meadow #spittlebug #grass #insects #food #webinar
February 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A different kind of morning for us today! Can you guess who we are next collaborating with?
January 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds.
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
January 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Earwi’GO! ran from 2021 – 2024, focusing on making earwig ‘hotels’ (day time shelters) from easily-available materials. Join us for the Earwi’GO! retrospective, where our volunteers encounter record heatwaves, slug sabotage, wandering wiglets and the distracting allure of rattan lamps

Link below!
January 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This short and sweet video about Buzz Club activities 2025 will hopefully raise a smile...
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Buzz Club
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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January 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Great to hear that this bug bunkers find has sparked a local efforts to support glow worms by:

⭐️improving habitat for the mating season

⭐️ to make a more coordinated record of this species in the area.

Thanks to all involved!

#glowworms #bugs #winter #larvae
January 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Today 4pm Ship St Lecture Theatre #ORFC25 come and hear about #Biodiversity in #Polycultures and our work on #Pollinators in #UrbanAgriculture using #CitizenScience @davegoulson.bsky.social @buzzclub.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM