I Tweeted (@treeruss) the above photo to advertise yesterday's bee walk and it happens to feature the first bee we saw. This is a male Hairy Yellow-Face bee Hylaeus hylinatus. It's tiny, less than 6mm! Yesterday's male was a bit dozy, presumably due to the cold weather. It soon warmed up in the glass tube I used to show if to the assembled bee…
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Where is London's economy? - take a look at Mark Brearley's analysis of just how many of London job's are outside the central area and how important safeguarding employment space is. There needs to be a balance between land…
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If you know what you are looking for it's not that hard to demonstrate the vital importance of deadwood in parks.
10 minutes at a horse chestnut stump in CLissold Park this afternoon revealled 2 new nationally scarce species for the park:
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A Hackney brewery gained popularity this winter when they joined the UK's nation-wide food waste campaign. The venture called Toast Ale and was dedicated to utilizing London's increasing amount of wasted bread.
The…
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This weekend saw the opening of the first publicly accessible wetland in Hackney at Woodberry Wetlands, and it was tremendously popular when I went along on Sunday. Closed to the public since it was built to store water brought along the New River from Hertfordshire it was officially opened by Sir Richard Attenborough on 30th April.…
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Don't forget to vote for your choice of London Mayor and GLA representatives on 5th May!
You've got three votes:
There's an interesting analysis of the green policies of the main mayoral candidates from Friends of…
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Arriva will take over as the operator of the London Overground services from November 2016 including all the Overground services through Hackney. The franchise will operate for 7 1/2 years with a possible additional two years.
The…
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Hackney Council statement 20 April 2016
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A very clever satirical short sketch by Patrick Stewart and friends, well worth watching, on the Guardian website: http://bit.ly/1SngsGF
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Please sign this petition to keep our pathology lab at the Homerton. Management committed to building a new pathology lab but the construction company have gone bust and left them with a hole in the ground. Now our…
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In "A good city has industry" Mark Brearley looks at how London is "eating itself" consuming the buildings, places and spaces that house our jobs for housing, threatening the very rich mix…
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How much longer can we tolerate market-based climate change policies that clearly aren’t working? This is the central challenge in a new report from the New York-based Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, which puts carbon market under its intense spotlight. The…
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The Hackney recycling service has installed extra temporary recycling points for small electrical items from 11-22nd April at:
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Found Buffish Mining bee Andrena nigroaeanea on Hackney Downs last week. That's another new species for Hackney.
That brings the total to 50 confirmed species in Hackney so far; 2 new species in a week! That's getting on for 20% of all UK species. See…
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Renters Rights London does what it says on the tin. There's good information on your rights and how to go about getting them, particulars on renting in each London borough and how you can organise for better controls over the private rented…
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This is a photo of the Furry-clasped Furrow bee (Lasioglossum lativentre) I discovered at Abney Park recently. This is a female. The tiny bees nest in the ground but little is known about them.
The species is fairly uncommon but not rare or scarce. It has never been recorded in north or east London before but that's more likely because no one's…
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Realising Good Friday was to be the pick of the Easter weekend weather I set out in determined fashion to see if I could find any new species of bees at Abney. After about four hours I had seen: Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, honey bees and lots of Hairy Footed Flower bees (mostly males but a few females had begun flying). There were also quite a few butterflies on the wing. I counted 4…
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Those who read my blog at the time will be familiar with the fact that back in October BBC Newsnight ran an astonishingly biased piece about the Tory government's U-turn on contracting to help the Saudi dictatorship run its prisons. [I know the BBC is routinely right-wing and anti- Corbyn but this really took the biscuit.]
For…
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Stunning Cobalt Crust fungus at Abney Park nature reserve. Previously seen in Wick…
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Heathrow 13: British Justice 0
Judge loses plot in high stakes climate change battle
As a former civil rights lawyer I've seen a fair…
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