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    • What are Pollinators?
    • Why Care About Pollinators?
    • Meet the Pollinators
    • Threats to Pollinators
  • How to Help
    • Flower to the People
    • Plants for Pollinators
    • Green Roofs
    • Map Your Pollinator Friendly Area
    • Pollinator Friendly Areas Map
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    • Pollinator Monitoring
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wildflower meadow at The Elms, St Mary, Jersey

Tim Ransom

Climate Change

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Pollinators, and the plants they rely on, can be highly susceptible to changes in the climate. With warmer winter …

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Invasive Non-native Species

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

The recent discovery in Jersey of the invasive Asian Hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) could have dire consequences …

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Pollution

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Both air pollution and light pollution negatively affects insect pollinators. Air pollution from vehicles, industry …

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Diseases

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Two of the most significant honeybee diseases locally are Varroa mite and American Foulbrood which both can have serious …

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Pesticides and other chemicals

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Due to the pressure to produce food for a rapidly growing human population agricultural pesticides and herbicides are …

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Intensification of Farming

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

The Channel Islands has a large amount of farmed land and much of the countryside consists of this type of habitat and …

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Habitat Loss

09/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Across the Channel Islands important habitats for pollinators are mainly being lost to the building of homes and other …

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Sulphur Beetle (Cteniopus sulphureus)

Other Insects

08/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Apart from those more well-known pollinators there are a couple of other insects that also contribute to …

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Female Spring Colletes Bee (Colletes cunicularius) inside her nest on sand dunes

Bees

08/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Bees are, arguably, the most important group of insects for pollination of flowers, trees and food crops. Whilst you …

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Jersey Tiger moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria)

Butterflies & Moths

08/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Another well known group of pollinators are the butterflies and moths with especially the former group being very much …

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Hoverfly hovering (Epistrophe grossulariae)

Hoverflies

08/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Amongst the flies it is the hoverflies that definitely stand alone as the most important pollinators. They pollinate …

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Solitary Wasp - Dinetus pictus

Wasps

08/01/2020 //  by Tim Ransom

Often the word ‘wasp’ conjures up all sorts of fears in many of us but there is so much more to them than that. Most …

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