HeyJaredDragonflies and Dandelions: Rewilding an Orchard
Rewilding an orchard in Cumbria and making it a haven for wildlife, especially insects.
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Identifying Bumblebees (opens the original)
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Here’s a picture guide to help you identify the seven most common bumblebees in Britain that you’re likely to see in your garden or when out for a walk, which I’ve written at the request of reader (such a great idea, Nick, thank you!). The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has a great guide to British bumbles on their site too.Bumblebees have three castes: queens, female workers, and males. The queens are usually larger versions of the workers, while the males of some species look rather different
Another Bumblebee Queen Who Can't Fly :-( (opens the original)
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I was so pleased at around 9.30am on Thursday morning to see a large buff-tailed bumblebee queen feeding, resting and grooming herself on the large buddleia in my yard. The colours of her tail and her stripes were so gorgeously bright and vivid that she was obviously very ‘new out of the box’, as I often put it. I assumed that she was feeding herself up before going into hibernation sometime in the near future, and was hoping that she’d sleep all the months away somewhere nearby and that I’d see
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