Registered Charity No: 1115634 (England & Wales), SC042830 (Scotland). The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was established because of serious concerns about the ‘plight of the bumblebee’.

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Butterfly and bee monitoring schemes are being launched in the island, and the Nature Commission is looking for citizen ...

Over the past few decades, as our open spaces have become filled and degraded from agriculture and urban expansion, the American bumblebee has started to disappear — entirely lost from at least eight ...

Focus: Research on commercial bumblebees and bumblebee identification. Funding: SynTax research scheme, supported by BBSRC and NERC. We are trying to isolate cryptic species in the most important ...

There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...

American bumblebee/ Xerces Society-Katie Lamke Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million ...

Significantly, bumblebees are considered better pollinators, and are loved by farmers for this role in helping crops grow. A key reason is that the larger size of bumblebees means they have more ...

Conservation experts are joining forces to help save the rare and threatened great yellow bumblebee at Bettyhill.

To help bumblebees, conservationists have to find them. Scientists reveal unique role canine workers have in saving crucial ...