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On the eve of #NoMowMay (and beyond!) here’s a little thread on why both mowing AND not mowing different parts of your lawn can be brilliant for wildlife. Sounds perverse? It’s all about long-grass and short-grass, and why you want both… 
Long-grass: Leaving a lawn unmown from spring onwards allows many tall meadow plants like oxeye daisy, meadow buttercup & knapweed to flower. These provide nectar & pollen for a wide range of pollinators & exceptional habitat for insects that feed & shelter in tall vegetation…
Long-grass areas are best left unmown for as long as possible - September to November - before being cut. This allows plants to seed and insects to prepare for winter. Ideally, leave a few patches completely unmown until spring. Wildlife will love it!
A thread 🧵 or rather a slow amble past wildflowers down a favourite lane.
First Red Campion foreground (Silene dioica)
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First Red Campion foreground (Silene dioica)
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Interwoven flowers of bluebells & Stitchwort form the fabric of this verge - with bright knots of dandelion as counterpoint.
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I only want to linger to admire the graceful arc of the bluebell bloom, with now Yellow Archangel (Lamium galeobdolon) adding contast.
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🌎 It’s #EarthDay but the birds and bees of Britain are on the decline — and most people haven’t even noticed bigissue.com/news/environme…
🐝Biodiversity is the variety of life in an ecosystem.
Britain has lost half its biodiversity in the last couple of hundred years.
We’re in the bottom 10% of countries in the world and last in the G7. Last. #EarthDay2022
bigissue.com/news/environme…
Britain has lost half its biodiversity in the last couple of hundred years.
We’re in the bottom 10% of countries in the world and last in the G7. Last. #EarthDay2022
bigissue.com/news/environme…
🦋 Worse yet, we can’t be certain about the scale of loss.
Most biodiversity data is collected by volunteers, who flock towards charismatic creatures like butterflies and bees. But data for less popular species like spiders and wasps is seriously lacking.
Most biodiversity data is collected by volunteers, who flock towards charismatic creatures like butterflies and bees. But data for less popular species like spiders and wasps is seriously lacking.
It's #PollinatorWeek so let's bust some myths which often come up when I give presentations or talk to folks. Note: these will be Canada-centric. #savewildbees #PollinatorWeek2021
#1 Bees die when they sting: Honeybees are the only sp. that I know of w/ barbed stingers that get stuck when they sting. They have colonies w/ 10-60k workers & if some die while defending it's less of a big deal than for native spp.
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#2 Bees are striped yellow & black: bees are incredibly diverse. There are 20,000+ spp globally and they come in all sorts of colours & sizes. In Canada, the sweat bees are the largest group and they are mostly grey, green & silver!
