Wow. How awesome is that?
Thought to be extinct…
I definitely see a link between the creation of habitat and the pollinator appearance.
Two conservation-minded Suffolk farmers are celebrating accolades for their environmental work after their pollen-rich field margins attracted rare insects – one of which was thought to be extinct.
Their farms were part of an initiative…to plant field headlands around potato and vegetable crops with a flower-rich green manure mix to provide pollen and nectar sources for insects, and give fertility-building soil protection. Richard took the award for the rarest species found, the Ashy Furrow Bee (Lasioglossom Sexnotatum) following insect monitoring last summer by independent entomologist Paul Lee. The bee, declared extinct in Suffolk in 1987 having not been seen since before 1900, was discovered on field margins by commercial root crops. It was one of 110 different insect species found on the farms’ Green Headland mixes.
Woohoo! Nice!
