Bee Trail vs IceAgePonds

In the App - you will learn everything you need to know to go on a journey to understand and help bees. Its the bees knees! * Amazing moving augmented reality bee images * Bee 'did you knows' from the bee experts! * Photographic images and illustrated bee art to hep your ID skills. * Links to valuable resources. * Top Tips based on scientific 'inside info'. * Answer the questions to collect the bee species and earn your virtual bee badge * Complete the trail and become a bee champion with all your new knowledge. Most people only think about honey bees or bumble bees when they hear the word bee! What if that singular focus was detrimental to lots of other pollinators? This Trail and accompanying App are designed to bust the myth that there are only one or two types of bee to look after, and introduce the other 260+ stars of the show. The wild bees do not live in hives, and can only be cared for if we learn about them. They are all around us needing our love and attention! Trail concept developed by Rebecca Twigg in response to a journey with my own bee education and my commitment to finding new exciting ways to engage more people in protecting them!

IceAgePonds explores landscape and ponds of western Herefordshire, via a series of tours by car or cycle and walking trails. Each tour and trail is accompanied by a detailed map, with pictures and explanation of points of interest along the way. The ponds formed at the close of the last Ice Age in Herefordshire between 20,000 and 12,000 years ago. Today these ponds form special sites rich in aquatic life. The app explains how the landscape is the product of former glacial lakes, debris deposited by glaciers, valleys cut by meltwater tunnelling beneath the ice and the changed paths of rivers. Reconstructions of how locations may have looked at the time of the last Ice Age are provided on the walks and tours. The walks include many pictures of the plants and creatures to be found in and around the ponds, along with the sounds of birds you may encounter. On the walks you will discover locations where you can use the app to take selfies, with a number of now extinct creatures, like woolly mammoths, from the time of the ice. The app includes a glossary of words relating to glacial features, along with detailed explanation of how the ponds formed. The app has been produced as part of the Conserving Herefordshire's Ice Age Ponds Project, generously funded by Lottery players via the National Lottery Heritage Fund.