With so much of the wider countryside agriculturally improved to deliver high productivity habitats, road verges offer a tantalising glimpse into the past, particularly of what the local meadows and pastures were like before agricultural intensification. These relatively small patches of flower and pollinator-rich grassland have survived because they were outside the field boundaries
We are particularly interested in learning the location and extent of the remaining flower-rich road verges and identifying which of these grasslands are attracting bees and butterflies.