Islanders asked to help our bugs this summer

Pollinators play a vital role in making sure our plants reproduce each year, but many of them are in decline. Credit: Slavek Ruta/Zuma Press/PA Images

People across the Channel Islands are being asked to help in a national survey to check on the health of our bees, butterflies, and other insects who pollinate our plants.

Pollinators play a vital role in making sure our plants reproduce each year, but many of them are in decline.

The Channel Islands Pollinator Project is trying to protect them for the future and it is encouraging us all to get involved this summer - by carrying out 10 minute pollinator counts. This involves marking out a 50cm square patch of flowers and recording the insects that land or crawl onto the flowers.

This year it is asking us all to get involved by doing short insect counts - on a 50cm square patch for 10 minutes. 

The data can then be recorded on the Pollinators Project website.