We’ve got a new bug hotel here at the @MarineInst Newport, overlooking Lough Feeagh & the #Burrishoole catchment. Great initiative led by @ElizabethRyder7 @FishEcoEvo @uccBEES to spread the #biodiversity word #pollinatorplan . Just in time for the week of schools visits

Just at the end of my favourite (work) day of the year....the Irish Pollinator Research Network meeting. A super bunch doing really important research, and supporting the exciting next phases of @PollinatorPlan. Thanks to @jimcarolan.bsky.social and @taradirilgen.bsky.social for hosting us this year

Must be a May record for our #BumbleeMonitoring for #biodiversityIreland. 150 bumblebees! Normally far less here in May + mostly honeybees. The #NoMow and #wild areas mean blankets of #vetch , #clover and #birdsfoottrefoil for all to enjoy! #pollinators #bumbógs #spéirgorm #knocklyon #PollinatorPlan

Osmia bicornis (Red Mason Bee) ♂️ from apple tree blossoms at Altamont Gardens, Co. Carlow @BeesOfIreland @PollinatorPlan

Graveyard in Kildavin, Co. Carlow getting some respite between cuttings. Even Knautia arvensis (Field Scabious) poking its head up. Other species e.g Valium verum (Lady's Bedstraw) only flowering close to uncut, inacessible areas beside headstones @PollinatorPlan @GrasslandsIrl

Megachile willughbiella (Willughby's Leafcutter Bee) ♂️ from Kildavin, Co. Carlow yesterday waving hello 👋 @BioDataCentre @BeesOfIreland @PollinatorPlan

UCD campus is looking great in the sun this week. Lots of evidence of implementation of the #pollinatorplan @ucdsustainability.bsky.social @ucd-chas.bsky.social #biodiversity

Nomada flavoguttata (Small Nomad Bee) from 6th of May in local graveyard in Kildavin, Co. Carlow. Collage highlights various features & steps needed to ID in @StevenFalk1's key to Nomada males @PollinatorPlan

Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris)-named for its 'angelic' properties-is looking splendiferous here at the moment: so many damp meadows in NW #Ireland. Clearly it's not just hogweed that's loved by bonking beetles! #PollinatorPals @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #PollinatorPlan

Bees & a wasp from last weekend: Osmia bicornis, Megachile willughbiella, Halictus tumulorum & Chrysis sp. @BeesOfIreland @PollinatorPlan @BioDataCentre

Andrena bicolor (Gwynne's Mining Bee) & Nomada goodeniana (Gooden's Nomad) between showers today in Kildavin, Co. Carlow @PollinatorPlan

Our overall #dandelion photo winner was a fab snap capturing a close look at Bombus Lapidarius (red-tailed bumblebee) on a recent survey.

🐝 Well done and happy #BiodiversityDay all! 🐝
#EcologicalSurvey #WorldBeeDay #ActionsForNature #WildBees #PollinatorPlan #NatureJobs