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Englefield Green Team
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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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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
June 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Did you know that the centres of forget-me-nots turn from yellow to white when they've been pollinated? #bees #pollinators #flowers
Forget-me-not flowers.
May 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Look who we met while planting wild flowers today! 😀
April 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Lovely scene on Englefield Green this weekend!
Two ponies tethered to a sign saying The Green.
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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
March 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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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.
February 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Good news for #bees!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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🌳🌸 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
January 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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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
An ancient oak tree Rugged bark of an old oak A hole made by an animal at the base of an old oak tree.
January 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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
An ancient oak tree Rugged bark of an old oak A hole made by an animal at the base of an old oak tree.
January 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Sharing information with community members about the impact of pesticides and herbicides is part of our mission at EGT. #Bees #pollinators #nature
lgspace.bsky.social 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
January 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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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
December 21, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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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
December 6, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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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.
December 6, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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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
December 5, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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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. 🙂
December 5, 2024 at 12:24 PM