Bumblebees are familiar and much-loved insects that pollinate our crops and wildflowers, but with disappearing nature corridors, urgent action is needed to provide habitat and protect their
populations. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust works to increase awareness of all bees, in particular bumblebees.
https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org
One of the ways we can help is to join BeeWalk.
BeeWalk is a national recording scheme run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to monitor the abundance of bumblebees on transects across the country.
Anyone can become a BeeWalker – all you need is some basic identification knowledge and a spare few hours or so every month to walk a fixed route of around 1 to 2 km (you choose where
it goes) and submit your sightings.
The information collected by BeeWalk volunteers is integral to monitoring how bumblebee populations change through time and will allow detection of early warning signs of population
declines, as well as contributing to important long-term monitoring of bumblebee population changes in response to changes in land-use and climate change.
To become a BeeWalker just visit this page and follow the guidance documents
https://beewalk.org.uk/resources
Clare is a BeeWalker and walks a transect at Speke’s once a month – if you would like to join her, or to learn more about becoming a BeeWalker, please get in touch. Chair@hartlandnaturesociety.org.uk
