Buzzing For Bath

That's all from us! 🥺🧡

We've really enjoyed the last few weeks, and can't thank you all enough for following and engaging with us - we've been overwhelmed by the reaction, it's amazing! 🤯😊

🪧 For more, please follow who we've carried out this project for - 🌾 They're doing some really amazing things, and you can learn more from the link in our bio 👆

Thanks again, and keep Bath buzzing! 😊✌🐝🦋🐞🧡

P O S I T I V E ✨ change through collaboration and community!

Taking action shouldn’t be a one man show - in fact we can maximise the impact of our individual positive action by collaborating with others.

Here are 3 local conservation charities that have been tackling the issues we’ve been highlighting throughout our campaign via:

🌟Community engagement
🌟Education
🌟& encouraging connection with nature

Follow and to learn more about what we can all do locally to preserve our wildlife, nature and futures 🐝🐜🐞

Let us know who your favourite local conservation charities are below!

The lucky winners of our 4-day challenge are and - congratulations! 🎊🧡

Please get in touch with us via our DMs to arrange your vouchers 😊

We really wish we could be giving you all prizes, everyone deserves them! We've honestly been blown away by the reaction and engagement, and are so so grateful to you all - thank you so much 😊🧡🐝✌

Photos courtesy of as always 👌😊

Being both aware and active are essential in promoting and protecting insect biodiversity 🐝

Vote with your wallet 💳 For example, consider buying direct from farmers and growers who go the extra mile to avoid the use of pesticides! 🧡

Use your voice! 🗣 Whether it's speaking to family and friends about important topics, engaging with community projects, or getting in touch with your local MP and signing relevant petitions, your voice has more impact than you know 🌍🤯 What's more, there are so many more ways to use it! 😊🎉
# flowers

🚨 Climate change is shifting the timing of emergence of pollinating insects from hibernation, decoupling them from that of their host plants 😥

This means that some plants are now coming into flower before any insects have emerged from hibernation, with dire consequences for both parties ... 😔🥺

Our quiz is live! Check our Facebook stories to participate! 🐞

Good morning! 🧡 It's time for the grand finale ... The Wonderful World of Insects Quiz! 🎊

Have you all been paying attention these last few weeks? It's time to find out ... 😉🐝

Make sure to answer all 10 questions on our story to complete the challenge ✅🤓

We'll be putting the questions up from 12:00-14:30, but feel free to complete it throughout the rest of the day 😊

that light pollution affects nocturnal animals such as moths, fireflies and many species of beetle? 🌆🎇

🕯If possible, try to reduce unnecessary light pollution in your garden to avoid disturbing courtship, foraging and navigation of these nocturnal insects 🐜🪰🪲

✅ This way you can create a more inviting environment for them and help preserve their habitats!

Happy Saturday! We've been bombarding you with our facts for the last few weeks, now we would love to hear some of yours! 💡🦋

Comment on this post or reply to our story with your favourite cool insect facts to complete the challenge ✅🐝

P.S. We absolutely loved seeing what everyone had created yesterday, you're all so talented 😊 We can't thank you enough, and please do keep any photographs or artistic creations coming if you would like to take part 🧡

Zero food miles from your vegetable🥬🍅🥦🥕

Fruit trees provide blossom for pollinators and fresh fruit for you!🍓🍒🍋🥭

Today it's time to get your creative hats on and draw, sculpt, paint or craft an artistic version of your favourite insect! 🎨👩🏽‍🎨🖍

Don't forget to send us a picture or tag us in your story to complete the challenge ✅🐝

Thank you all again for your amazing photos and videos yesterday, we absolutely loved them, and were blown away by how many we received - you guys are amazing 😍🧡

Congratulations to all of those who complete challenge 1 of the Buzzing for Bath 4-Day Challenge! 🦟🐝🐜🐞🌟

Here are our favourite submissions from Selkie Calonmôr and others! Make sure to check our rules of the game post to ensure that you’re meeting the criteria for the prize draw 😚

See you all tomorrow for day 2!

The first day of our challenge is finally here 🎊🎉

Time to get outside and find and snap a picture or video of local insect wildlife 📸🐞🐝

Send us your best attempts via tagging us in your story or sending them straight to our DMs to complete the challenge ✅🧡

Welcome to the first day of the Buzzing for Bath challenge!

We will soon post details of Challenge #1 🤩

Remember to take part you must submit an image of the required activity. Submit this to our Facebook via messenger to complete the challenge* 🐞🐜

*You can also submit on Instagram - one submission per person, on either social media account.

We can’t wait to see what you share with us 🌟

Good luck! 🐝

Tag 3 friends in the comments below! 👇🧡

Join us from tomorrow for our 4-day challenge, and up your chances of winning by getting up to 3 entries into our prize draw! 🏆⭐🐝

We're giving away 3 vouchers for the amazing 🪴🌵 go check them out 👌

Join us on our 4-day challenge for a chance to win 🙌🧡

Reducing the frequency of mowing your lawn allows for growth of wild flowers, helping pollinators to get their fix 🐝🌻

Welcome everyone to the Buzzing For Bath challenge! 🏆 🐝

So what’s involved? 🤔

🥇Day 1: Find and snap a picture of an insect! Send us your best picture, tag us in your story or send it to us directly to compete the challenge 📸

🥇Day 2: Put your creative hat on and draw, paint or craft your own artistic version of your favourite insect! 🎨

🥇Day 3: We’ve been sharing loads of fun facts with you over the last few weeks and now we’re challenging you to share your own favourite facts with us! We can’t wait to learn from you! 😄💡

🥇Day 4: The Grand-Finale! We love quizzes ✍🏼 so have a go at answering our questions to complete the challenge 🤓📚

🚨 Remember there are prizes to be won so don’t miss out!! 👀

Insects, such as ladybirds, can be an organic growers best friend! ❣️

They are a natural 🌱alternative to pesticide use and can help us restore our natural habitats! 🌿🌳🪴

Using natural and organic alternatives to pesticides represents a significant way we can all help stop & reverse biodiversity decline ✍️

If you see any of the following in your garden, don’t squash them 🗣 as they are here to help 👍🏽

🌻Hoverflies

🌷ladybirds

💐Parasitic wasps

🌼butterflies and wasps

🥀Lacewing

🕷🦗🦟🐜🪰and many more!!

Join us this week for the Buzzing for Bath 4-day challenge 🐝🐞

The 4-days will comprise of a number of insect related challenges, with prizes to be won!!!

Follow us for more information 🎁🐝🐛🐞

🌱Not only are pesticides detrimental to insect life🐞🐛, there are also concerns around the effects of them on human health❗

Therefore, reducing pesticide use is beneficial to both insect and human health

Get ready for our final topic ... ready to learn how YOU can help protect and promote local biodiversity? 🐝🌍

Over the next few days we'll be talking about some of the things you can do on both a macro and micro level to help insects! 😁🙏

P.S. Keep an eye out for our 4-Day Challenge, coming very soon 👀🤫

💧 Insects help ecosystems thrive and can even act as water purifiers!

💡 Did you know that dragonflies are known to be indicators of clean water? They really like fresh water so you’ll almost always find them near a flowing river or high quality ponds!

🚨 It’s important to remember that a decline in insects such a mayflies or dragonflies has a direct impact on ecosystem services, especially for water purification 😢

👀Where does the economic value of biological pest control come from❓

📍Taking the relationship between ladybirds and aphids in cotton fields as an example

The economic value of ladybird 🐞comes from 3️⃣ main sources:
firstly, it reduces the use of pesticides for aphid control; 🌿
secondly, it saves on the labour👨🏻‍🌾 input of pesticide spraying;
and thirdly, it controls the loss of cotton yield due to aphids.🌾

Without insects, we would be physically unable to feed the human population.

Food for thought ... 🌍🐞🐝

Over the next few days we will be highlighting the effects of a continued decline in insect numbers!

Stay tuned to understand the importance of insects to our lives 🐞🐛🐝

Ladybirds🐞, mantis, hoverflies and ground beetles all work towards controlling the populations of insect pests🦗

Social wasps eat 14 tonnes of insect pests every summer!👏🏼🥳

Gardeners 👨🏻‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾 can order beneficial insect assassins in mass quantities and release them near their garden🌱. Within a few weeks, the pest problem is resolved.🌸

Using insects to fight insects means there’s no synthetic chemicals used and there’s practically no human labor involved in dispersing these beneficial bugs.☺️

Insects carry out a stinky but important job so we don’t have to 💩

They decompose things such as animal waste, giving us a natural helping hand in keeping things clean.

🌼The sticky pollen from flowering plants clings to the insect bodies, which is how it gets carried from one plant to the next 🌱

According to WWF, 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination 🌎

⏱However, insect decline means a decline in pollinators which has dire consequences for the global food system.

Let’s end the day by celebrating their hard work! Thanks to our insects friends we see such beautiful flowers and plants around us every year 🌸 🌺 🌹

& stay tuned to find out how we can have a positive impact on biodiversity loss!

♻️ We’re grateful that insects are such great recyclers!

🪲 For example, beetles help to break down organic waste while they scavenge. By doing so, they add nutrients to the soil which is then used by plants! 🌱

New topic incoming ... 🎉 Over the next couple of days we're going to be talking about a few of the many reasons as to why we love insects! 🧡

We'd absolutely love to hear what you guys love about insects too, so please do let us know 🐛🐝🪲😊

Let's get down to beesness... Although we're not supposed to have favourites, I think it's pretty obvious what ours are! 👀😂

Swipe for a few cool facts on our favourite insect - the bees! 🐝🧡

That tops off our wonderful world of insects, stay tuned for why we love insects! ✌

Adult butterflies taste with their legs 🤯, looking for the right plant to lay their eggs for their caterpillars to feed on! 🐛

The adults eat from completely different plants, using their proboscis (straw-like mouth) to sip nectar 🧉

With over 4000 species of beetle in the UK, it's likely you'll have encountered many throughout your life! 😱

The most well known beetles are ladybirds, even though their name suggests otherwise 🐞

What's your favourite type of beetle? 🪲 ours is the stag! 😊

Butterflies react very quickly to changes in the environment 🦋 making them fantastic biodiversity indicators 😎

❗️Butterfly decline is an early warning of other wildlife losses making these critters very valuable for assessing the health of our environment ✍️

According to Somerset & Bristol Butterfly Conservation, 8 out of 59 species of butterflies in the U.K. have made their homes in Somerset 🌾

These include the Blues, the Hairstreaks and the Whites 🦋🦋🦋

Which butterflies have you seen in and around Bath? 🔍

Photo credited to

What are insects? 🐜

🌱Arthropods
🌱Six legs
🌱Most have wings
🌱Lifecycle consists of egg, larva, to adult

Following that criteria, bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, and moths can all be classified as insects! 🐞

Can you name any other insects? 😄Comment below your favourites! 🐛

NEW TOPIC ALERT 🚨

Next week, we’ll walk you through the various types of insects that can be commonly found in the UK! 🐞

In the mean time, keep an eye out for our little friends!

Do you have any cool pictures you’d like us to showcase on our page? If so, drop us a message! 🐛📸

While biodiversity decreases throughout the UK, habitat loss is on an upward trend 📈

The reality.

❗️Urbanisation
❗️Deforestation
❗️Pollution of water, air and soil
❗️Industrialisation
❗️Insecticides
❗️Pesticides

Has humanity put profit over planet?