We are on Facebook :- https://www.facebook.com/beefriendlymon/
Organisations …..
Bees for Development – www.beesfordevelopment.org
Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society – www.bwars.com
Buglife – www.buglife.org.uk
Bumblebee Conservation Trust – www.bumblebeeconservation.org
Butterfly Conservation – www.butterfly-conservation.org
Friends of the Earth – www.foe.co.uk
Gwent Wildlife Trust – www.gwentwildlife.org
Monmouthshire County Council – www.monmouthshire.gov.uk
Monmouthshire Meadows – www.monmouthshiremeadows.org.uk
Natural Resources Wales – www.naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre – www.sewbrec.org.uk
Welsh Assembly Government Action Plan for Pollinators www.biodiversitywales.org.uk/Wales-Action-Plan-for-Pollinators
Resources …..
“The Pollinator Garden – facts about plants, pollinating insects and gardening” –
www.foxleas.com See the “What you can do” section for Planting for pollinators, Basic information on wildlife friendly gardening and Making a bee “hotel”.
Royal Horticultural Society, Plants for pollinators –
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Search?query=plants%20for%20pollinators
Royal Horticultural Society, Encouraging bees in gardens –
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=648
https://www.wirefence.co.uk/melittology-resources/ – all about bees
https://www.buyrope.co.uk/pollinator-glossary/ – pollinator glossary
Welsh Organic Wild Flowers – supplier of Monmouthshire grown plug plants.
https://www.welshorganicwildflowers.com/
Surveying :-
Bumblebee Conservation Trust
https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/surveys/
An overview ofsurvey opportunities.
BeeWalk
https://www.beewalk.org.uk/
Count bumblebees seen once a month on a 2km walk.
UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS).
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/pollinator-monitoring
Count the number of insects visiting a patch of flowers for 10 minutes.
Flower-Insect Timed Count (FIT Count).
iRecord
https://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/enter-casual-record
Record seeing a single species.
iSpot
https://www.ispotnature.org/
Get help identifing a single species.
SEWBReC South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre
http://www.sewbrec.org.uk/
Enter records of species seen in South East Wales.
Wales Biodiversity Partnership
https://www.biodiversitywales.org.uk/Monitoring
Seven Falk’s online identification guide for bees –
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157631518508520/
Species Identification, Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society –
http://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=species_gallery
Assisting local conservation projects by identifying and mapping the bees of Monmouthshire – http://monnowwildbees.org.uk/
A future without neonicotinoid pesticides. A farmers experience –
http://www.peterlundgren.co.uk/2014/01/27/is-there-a-future-without-neonicotinoids/
Blog Site on Natural Beekeeping in Abergavenny –
http://beecaring22.blogspot.co.uk/
Friends of the Earth, Bee Cause News –
http://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/bee_cause_news_35048
Wildlife Gardening Forum http://www.wlgf.org
Bee Friendly Wyesham- https://www.facebook.com/groups/871817149664848/about/
Bee Friendly Monmouthshire 