Welcome to the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS)

Pollinating insects play a vital role in our environment, ensuring that many of our crops and wild plants are able to set seed and produce fruit. We need to know how pollinator populations are changing, and with your help we are gathering data on a wide range of flower-visiting insects.

Read on to see how you can join in and help monitor the health of our pollinators, subscribe to our mailing list, and read our new annual report.

The UKPoMS survey season in 2024 started on 1 April and runs to 30 September – please read on to find out how to get involved!

Choose an activity

The ten minute count...

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The ten minute count...

Spend ten minutes counting pollinators to contribute a Flower-Insect Timed Count (FIT Count)

Send in your results via the FIT Count recording form or FIT Count app

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...or something bigger

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...or something bigger

Adopt a 1 km square and help us carry out a systematic survey of insects and flowers

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You can also get involved with pollinator species recording via the national recording schemes

Help gather evidence on changes in insect populations

Help gather evidence on changes in insect populations

UKPoMS is the first scheme in the world to have begun (since 2017) generating systematic data on the abundance of bees, hoverflies and other flower-visiting insects at a national scale. Together with long-term occurrence records collated by the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society and Hoverfly Recording Scheme, these data will form an invaluable resource from which to measure trends in pollinator populations and target conservation efforts.

With reports of dramatic losses of insects occurring across the globe, and concern about what this means for wider biodiversity and ecosystem health, there has never been a more important time to document evidence of change in populations of pollinating insects.

Who we are

The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (UK PoMS) is a partnership funded jointly by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) (through funding from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for Northern Ireland). UK PoMS is co-ordinated by UKCEH (UKCEH’s contribution is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability). Project partners include the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Butterfly Conservation, British Trust for Ornithology, Hymettus, Natural History Museum, Buglife, the University of Reading and the University of Leeds.

"UK centre for Ecology & Hydrology"

"Bumblebee Conservation Trust" "Butterfly Conservation" "Hymettus" "Bird trust Ornithology" "University of Reading""Buglife " "University of Leeds" "Natural History Museum""Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs" "The Scottish Government" "Welsh Government services and information"

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