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Englefield Green Team

@egteam.bsky.social

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Transforming green spaces in Englefield Green, Surrey, UK into biodiversity havens 🐝, fostering community impact 🤝 & creating beautiful areas for local people and wildlife. 🌱🧡🌳

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Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Jun 7

Look who we spotted amid the wildflowers we planted on the Green today. We think it's a Lychnis moth caterpillar - a great sign that our beautiful flowers are supporting more biodiversity. Lychnis caterpillars thrive in red campion, and we have introduced lots of it! #urbannature

A moth caterpillar in a campion seed pod

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · May 1

Did you know that the centres of forget-me-nots turn from yellow to white when they've been pollinated? #bees #pollinators #flowers

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Apr 26

Look who we met while planting wild flowers today! 😀

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Mar 23

Lovely scene on Englefield Green this weekend!

Two ponies tethered to a sign saying The Green.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · Mar 5

BUNDLE! 🐦 During the winter months Wrens are known to roost communally to maximise body temperature and stay warm during chilly nights, sometimes over a dozen birds at a time. Snuggly. 🤗

📸Wren © Alan Price

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Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just some of the wildflowers we've been growing from seed over the winter to plant out on verges around the village. 🐝🌷#bees #pollinators #urbanwildlife #nature

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Feb 25

A few bumble bees are coming out but it's still chilly. This one is having a little sip of sugar water and warming up indoors. #bees

A bumble bee next to a daffodil in a tupperware box.

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Jan 23

Good news for #bees!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Jan 19

🌳🌸 Grow, Baby. Grow!

The Englefield Green Team is boosting #biodiversity 🌱🐝

Our amazing volunteers are transforming an overgrown area in our village into a beautiful haven of biodiversity by planting a #Miyawaki forest! 🌿✨

Check out our video! 🎥#nature #conservation #community

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Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Jan 16

Took some time out with this incredible oak today- perhaps 800 years old? So much wildlife is sustained by a single tree. We should cherish them! #nature #trees #conservation

A hole made by an animal at the base of an old oak tree.

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Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Jan 16

Took some time out with this incredible oak today- perhaps 800 years old? So much wildlife is sustained by a single tree. We should cherish them! #nature #trees #conservation

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Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Jan 4

Sharing information with community members about the impact of pesticides and herbicides is part of our mission at EGT. #Bees #pollinators #nature

Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · Jan 4

Please say no to pesticides and herbicides. Cocktails of these chemicals in fields, gardens, parks, verges, community spaces are poisoning wildlife including bees, birds, hedgehogs, butterflies, beetles, frogs, damselflies, and polluting our rivers. Let's give nature a chance 🐝

Orange tip butterfly on pale pink cuckooflower, growing in long green grass

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Dec 21

And about time too! #bees #biodiversity

BBC News - Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approvals to end
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approval will end, vows Defra

Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.

www.bbc.com

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · Dec 6

Welsh rewilding charity Tir Natur has an opportunity to secure over 1000 acres of land in Wales to showcase rewilding 🌳🐂. Please help make this happen by donating to their Crowdfunder 👇

Every £1 you donate will be match funded. Please share!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cynefin-ap...

An illustration of a wild rewilding landscape, with hills, native trees and river, and wildlife including grazing horses and cows, owl, hedgehog, badger and eagle

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · Dec 6

Day 6 of the 2024 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Hairy Dragonfly is quite localised in the UK but spreading. It's the first of the really large ones to emerge. This one at Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Lower Moor Farm in May. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife

A large dragonfly sits on a leaf. It has blue eyes, a brown, hairy thorax with yellow stripes and a dark abdomen with blue spots.

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Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Dec 5

Here's a little video we made last summer that explains a bit about why we set up The Englefield Green Team. Are you supporting #biodiversity in your local area? We'd love to connect! #wildflowers #bees #nature #conservation #climate

Englefield Green Team @egteam.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hello! The Englefield Green Team is happy to be on #BlueSky! We're a group of volunteers on a mission to create wildlife friendly spaces in our village, improve community bonds and enhance our mental and physical health. 🙂

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