Wild bee diversity improves when organic farms overlap with perennial meadows. These combinations offer nesting and varied ...

Where the wild bees thrive. University of Göttingen. Journal Journal of Applied Ecology DOI 10.1111/1365-2664.70074 ...

Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) One of Britain’s most common species, it has a distinctive orange-red tail (although this is not unique to the species) and lives in large nests, with 150 or ...

As well as the more common varieties - the white-tailed (Bombus lucorum), red-tailed (Bombus lapidarius) and the ginger-coloured common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum), in some parts of Derbyshire ...

The newly created Bumblebee Conservation Trust is asking you to inform them of sightings of bee species, many of which are under threat, writes… ...

By Kristine Sabillo Bumblebee numbers in Great Britain declined by almost a quarter in 2024 compared with the 2010-23 average ...

The team gathered DNA information on two of the UK's six most widespread species: the common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) and the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius).

All Bombus samples were B. lapidarius, with the exception of one sample from site L (clone 05), which was B. pascuorum (this sample is not included in any of the other analyses, but revealed a DWV ...