Buzz Club
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!
- Join today: www.thebuzzclub.uk/thebigbeehot...
- New event! Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...
- 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 👇
- Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...
- 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?...
- 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
- Reposted by Buzz ClubThe Big Bee Hotel Experiment Project Give it a go! www.thebuzzclub.uk/thebigbeehot... @buzzclub.bsky.social
- Reposted by Buzz ClubStill time to make a clay hotel for the very lovely hairy-footed flower bee! youtu.be/o1w8_6ctgZ0
- 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...
- 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.
- Pledge to be a Hoverfly Hero and download a Hoverfly Gardening Guide here: www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk Our Hoverfly Lagoon Project 2025 begins in May, but you can register your interest today & receive updates directly to your inbox: www.thebuzzclub.uk/hoverfly-lag... @ellenrotheray.bsky.social
- Reposted by Buzz ClubFind 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...
- 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!
- Thanks for such a lovely review 😍
- #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!
- It’s tonight!! Come and join us for an earwig evening!
- 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.
- 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
- If you want to learn more and get involved in surveying barkflies, check out the National Barkfly Recording Scheme: schemes.brc.ac.uk/barkfly/home...
- Reposted by Buzz ClubOver 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...
- Reposted by Buzz ClubToday'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
- 🔔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
- A different kind of morning for us today! Can you guess who we are next collaborating with?
- Reposted by Buzz ClubPet 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
- 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!
- Reposted by Buzz ClubThis short and sweet video about Buzz Club activities 2025 will hopefully raise a smile... youtu.be/OjrHHBXL6II
- 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
- Reposted by Buzz ClubToday 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
- Starting the New Year off with a great finding in our Bug Bunkers Project. This is a pirate spider egg sac, found in a bug bunker at Gosling Sike @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social ! Pirate spiders create these awesome structures which contain 5-15 eggs. What have you found so far in 2025?
- Ticket sales close at midnight tonight! Book now to not miss out!
- Buzz Club Christmas Pub Quiz Fundraiser this Friday evening! This will be a fun and festive evening, where you can join like-minded people online to test out your insect and wildlife gardening knowledge! Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...
- Ou Buzz Club Wrapped for 2024! Thanks to everyone who volunteered, supported and partnered with us this year 🐝
- Head to our website to learn how to make yummy reindeer food that is also safe for the environment!: www.thebuzzclub.uk/buzzkids #reindeer #christmas #gardens #winter #fatherchristmas #sleigh #rudolphtherednosedreindeer
- Reposted by Buzz ClubBuzz Club Christmas Pub Quiz Fundraiser this Friday evening! This will be a fun and festive evening, where you can join like-minded people online to test out your insect and wildlife gardening knowledge! Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/thebu...
- Reposted by Buzz ClubAccording to the Express, magpies are "hooligans" & "instinctive killers" best controlled by using pesticides to kill their insect prey. Against stiff competition, possibly the worst piece of journalism I've seen. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...
