13/08/2026
🐝 What a fantastic day celebrating pollinators at Margam Country Park! 🦋
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our two Buzzing Through Margam guided pollinator walks and to Glo i Natur CIC for their expertise leading the walk.
Across the two walks, participants recorded an impressive variety of pollinators, including butterflies such as Painted Lady, Comma, Common Blue, Speckled Wood and Meadow Brown. Bumblebee highlights included Buff-tailed, White-tailed and Red-tailed Bumblebees, alongside the ever-cheerful Common Carder Bee. Hoverflies were also well represented, with sightings including the aptly named Batman Hoverfly and Tapered Dronefly. Several solitary bees were recorded too, including Common Furrow Bee, Grey-banded Mining Bee and Colletes (plasterer) bees, as well as the beautiful mint moth.
One of the highlights of the day was finding two species of cuckoo bumblebee: the Southern Cuckoo Bee and Red-tailed Cuckoo Bee. These remarkable bees depend on healthy populations of other bumblebees, taking over their nests rather than building their own. Their presence is a positive sign that important host species, including Buff-tailed and Red-tailed Bumblebees, are thriving within the park.
Thank you again to everyone who attended and helped make the walks such an enjoyable and engaging experience. We are also grateful to Margam Country Park for hosting the events and supporting opportunities for people to connect with nature.
These walks were delivered by the Neath Port Talbot Local Nature Partnership and funded by the Welsh Government through the Local Places for Nature programme.
🐝 Am ddiwrnod gwych yn dathlu peillwyr ym Mharc Gwledig Margam! 🦋
Diolch yn fawr i bawb a ymunodd â ni ar ein dwy daith gerdded dywysedig Gwenynnu Trwy Forgannwg (Buzzing Through Margam) ac i Glo i Natur am eu harbenigedd wrth arwain y teithiau. Roedd yn hyfryd gweld cynifer o bobl yn dangos diddordeb yn y bywyd gwyllt rhyfeddol sy'n cynnal ein hecosystemau lleol.
Ar draws y ddwy daith, cofnododd y cyfranogwyr amrywiaeth drawiadol o beillwyr, gan gynnwys gloÿnnod byw megis y Fonesig Baentiog (Painted Lady), y Coma, y Glöyn Glas Cyffredin (Common Blue), y Coedwig Fraith (Speckled Wood) a'r Brown Dôl (Meadow Brown). Ymhlith uchafbwyntiau'r cacwn roedd y Gacynen Gynffon-lwydfelyn (Buff-tailed Bumblebee), y Gacynen Gynffon-wen (White-tailed Bumblebee) a'r Gacynen Gynffon-goch (Red-tailed Bumblebee), ochr yn ochr â'r Gacynen Gardio Gyffredin (Common Carder Bee) bywiog fel arfer.
Roedd pryfed hofran hefyd yn niferus, gyda rhywogaethau megis y Pryfyn Hofran Batman a'r Pryfyn Hofran Tapered Dronefly yn cael eu gweld. Cofnodwyd nifer o wenyn unigol hefyd, gan gynnwys y Wenynen Rhychog Gyffredin (Common Furrow Bee), y Wenynen Fwyngloddio Lwyd-fandog (Grey-banded Mining Bee) a gwenyn Colletes (gwenyn plastrwr), ynghyd â'r gwyfyn hardd Mint Moth.
Un o uchafbwyntiau'r dydd oedd dod o hyd i ddwy rywogaeth o gacynen gwcw: y Gacynen Gwcw Ddeheuol (Southern Cuckoo Bee) a'r Gacynen Gwcw Gynffon-goch (Red-tailed Cuckoo Bee). Mae'r gwenyn rhyfeddol hyn yn dibynnu ar boblogaethau iach o gacwn eraill, gan gymryd drosodd eu nythod yn hytrach nag adeiladu rhai eu hunain. Mae eu presenoldeb yn arwydd cadarnhaol bod rhywogaethau lletyol pwysig, gan gynnwys y Gacynen Gynffon-lwydfelyn a'r Gacynen Gynffon-goch, yn ffynnu o fewn y parc.
Diolch eto i bawb a fynychodd ac a helpodd i wneud y teithiau mor bleserus a difyr. Rydym hefyd yn ddiolchgar i Barc Gwledig Margam am gynnal y digwyddiadau a chefnogi cyfleoedd i bobl gysylltu â natur.
Cynhaliwyd y teithiau hyn gan Bartneriaeth Natur Leol Castell-nedd Port Talbot ac fe'u hariannwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru drwy raglen Lleoedd Lleol ar gyfer Natur.
