Webinars & Events

The Buzz Club is all about getting everyone involved in their local wildlife, learning more about it and making a difference to garden wildlife conservation.

Why not join us at one of our events?

Events

From pets to nests: exploring the impact of flea treatments on birds

27th March 2025

Join Dr. Cannelle Tassin du Monatigu to learn about how treating your pets for fleas has a negative effect on local garden bird populations!

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The Good, the Bad and the (B)ugly - strange tales of insects through history

9th April 2025

Insects have been helping, hindering and just plain baffling humans for a very long time. Join Linda for a light-hearted look into some of her favourite strange insect stories!

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Improving Bee Hotel Design: The Big Bee Hotel Experiment

22nd April 2025

Bee hotels have become very popular, but some designs are likely to be better than others. Dave will introduce the concept of bee hotels, then present results from the Buzz Club's Big Bee Hotel Experiment.

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Pollen, nectar and the seasons that bees need them most!

8th May 2025

Join this talk to learn about Dr. Ciaran Harris' research inbee foraging ecology and conservation. Ciaran's research has focused on seasonal changes in pollen and nectar availability for bees other insects, aiming to determine the months or seasons that are most challenging for foraging.

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A game of hide and seek: The unseen predators in our gardens

2nd June 2025

Join Dr. Sergio Rossoni for a talk on garden predators. Gardens are viewed as peaceful floral havens but hidden among the leaves, there is a secret world of reckless chases and cold blooded murders!

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Webinar Recordings
"Informative and inspiring" ~ Lynne B (Member)

Marvellous Miners: A Retrospective

1st November 2023

This new project focused on a type of bee we hadn't looked at before: mining bees. We investigated methods of making artificial habitats, or 'bee hotels', that might appeal to these bees. Join us for a webinar where we will talk mining bees, what we tested and what we found out.

Watch here!

Buzz Club in 2024!

29th February 2024

Join Issy and Linda for the first webinar of 2024!
Find out what's planned for the Buzz Club in 2024 - projects, events and more!

Watch here!

entoLIVE: Refurbishing the Bee Hotel: Different Bees, Different Needs

11th April 2024

We have partnered with the Biological Recording Company to deliver a series of webinars. In this webinar Dr. Linda Birkin and Isobel Sexton will report their findings on what does and doesn't work when it comes to providing your very own Air Bee 'n' Bee!

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entoLIVE: Hoverfly Lagoons Project: A Journey into the Past, Present and Future

17th July 2024

We have partnered with the Biological Recording Company to deliver a series of webinars. In this webinar Dr. Ellen Rotheray will talk about the highly successful Hoverfly Lagoons project and introducing aquatic habitats to small spaces.

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entoLIVE: Bees and Heatwaves: Preparing for a Warming World

5th June 2024

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, it is essential to understand how pollinators respond to such extreme conditions. In this webinar Yanet Sepulveda and Isobel Sexton talk about a project investigating this and what you can do to help!

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entoLIVE: Bees and Beyond: Ecosystem Services at a Garden Scale

5th September 2024

Gardening success and invertebrate activity are deeply intertwined. Join Dr. Linda Birkin for a free webinar exploring the importance of gardens for the wider environment in which they are nestled.

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entoLIVE: Sow Wild! and Insect Identification

1st October 2024

A webinar investigating the success of 'mini meadows' and testing the ability of citizen scientists to sample and identify insects.

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Garden, Bugs and Science

1st March 2025

Dr. Linda Birkin's talk at the Staffordshire Invertebrate Fair.

If you are running an event and would like us to be involved, drop us an email at buzzclub@sussex.ac.uk.

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What you think about our events
~ thank you for your feedback!

Really fascinating, well-paced, I like the format of interactive questions with lots of snippets. I learned a lot, thank you :)

Informative presentation within a friendly and relaxed atmosphere

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Really easy to attend, great talk and I learnt a lot!

Webinars & Events

Events

Join Dr. Cannelle Tassin du Monatigu to learn about how treating your pets for fleas has a negative effect on local garden bird populations!

Bee hotels have become very popular, but some designs are likely to be better than others. Dave will introduce the concept of bee hotels, then present results from the Buzz Club's Big Bee Hotel Experiment.

Join this talk to learn about Dr. Ciaran Harris' research inbee foraging ecology and conservation. Ciaran's research has focused on seasonal changes in pollen and nectar availability for bees other insects, aiming to determine the months or seasons that are most challenging for foraging.

Join Dr. Sergio Rossoni for a talk on garden predators. Gardens are viewed as peaceful floral havens but hidden among the leaves, there is a secret world of reckless chases and cold blooded murders!

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Request a webinar from us!

Webinar Recordings "Informative and inspiring" ~ Lynne B (Member)

This new project focused on a type of bee we hadn't looked at before: mining bees. We investigated methods of making artificial habitats, or 'bee hotels', that might appeal to these bees. Join us for a webinar where we will talk mining bees, what we tested and what we found out.

Join Issy and Linda for the first webinar of 2024! Find out what's planned for the Buzz Club in 2024 - projects, events and more!

What you think about our events ~ thank you for your feedback!

Webinar Recordings
"Informative and inspiring" ~ Lynne B (Member)

Join Issy and Linda for the first webinar of 2024!
Find out what's planned for the Buzz Club in 2024 - projects, events and more!

What you think about our events
~ thank you for your feedback!