Bees and Beyond: Ecosystem Services at a Garden Scale

Bees and Beyond: Ecosystem Services at a Garden Scale

Free webinar with Dr Linda Birkin exploring the importance of gardens for the wider environment in which they are nestled.

By The Biological Recording Company

Date and time

Thu, 5 Sep 2024 05:00 - 06:00 PDT

Location

Online

Refund Policy

No Refunds

About this event

Gardening success and invertebrate activity are deeply intertwined, for better or worse! Demonstrating that the beneficial side of this relationship vastly outweighs the negative is hugely important for maximising the ecological value of gardens - as well as improving horticultural outcomes. Pollination and pest control are the easiest of these 'ecosystem services' to illustrate at garden scales. These Buzz Club projects aim to highlight both in practical and entertaining ways.

Dr Linda Birkin is a specialist in citizen science and urban entomology. She has a particular interest in ecological outreach and wildlife gardening.

entoLIVE is delivered by the Biological Recording Company, British Entomological & Natural History Society, Royal Entomological Society and Amateur Entomologists' Society, with support from Buglife and the Field Studies Council.

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The Biological Recording Company provide a range of events focused on educating and training biological recorders and biodiversity professionals in the United Kingdom.

  • entoLIVE Webinars are free 1-hour virtual events exploring the science of insects and other invertebrates. Each webinar will feature an invertebrate scientist and are suitable for adults of all abilities – a passion for invertebrates is all that’s required!
  • Virtual Symposiums explore a subject in more detail through a series of talks from subject experts. These longer events have a small charge and are often available with an 'earlybird' discount.
  • Field Recorder Days are 1-day events where experienced and novice recorders come together to record the wildlife of a site. Records are generally collated through iRecord and shared with the site manager, Local Environmental Record Centre and relevant National Recording Schemes/Societies.
  • Earthworm Training Courses cover topics such as biology, ecology, sampling techniques and identification.
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