Ep. 32 Interview: Dr Abigail Lowe and Windflower

This month we are thrilled to interview Dr Abigail Lowe, Community Science Officer at the Natural History Museum and an expert on plants and their pollinators. We also have a brief clip from the British Trust for Ornithology and a wildlife gardening correspondent too! If that’s not enough, we then look at a spring delight, the charming Windflower or Anemone nemorosa.

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Seasonal progression and differences in major floral resource use by bees and hoverflies in a diverse horticultural and agricultural landscape revealed by DNA metabarcoding

Anemone nemorosa

Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa) (plantlife.org.uk)

Anemone nemorosa L. in BSBI Online Plant Atlas 2020

Bilberry bumblebee - Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Melanostoma mellinum | NatureSpot

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The Fern | UKmoths

Endophytus anemones [Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects (ukflymines.co.uk)

Flax Tortrix Cnephasia asseclana | UKmoths

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