Bee the change - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Winter active bumblebees - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Bumblebee nests - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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About Bumblebees - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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I’ve found a stranded bumblebee in bad weather, how can I help it? - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
I’ve found a stranded bumblebee in bad weather, how can I help it? - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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👑 Make your garden fit for a queen bee and build a bumblebee nest! Click here to download our FREE 'Make space for bumblebee nests' resource for step-by-step instructions! 🐝 http://ow.ly/reSI50HwJuj 🌧 Remember to put a few holes along the pipe’s underside – so any water getting in can leak away! | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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👑 Make your garden fit for a queen bee and build a bumblebee nest! Click here to download our FREE 'Make space for bumblebee nests' resource for step-by-step instructions! 🐝 http://ow.ly/reSI50HwJuj 🌧 Remember to put a few holes along the pipe’s underside – so any water getting in can leak away! | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Turn your sound up for buzz pollination, the bumblebee superpower no other insect in the UK has 🔊🐝 This unique ability allows bumblebees to release pollen for over 20,000 species of plant around the world, including garden displays, wildflowers, crops, and allotment favourites. But our bumblebees are struggling due to the loss of wildflowers and good nesting spots. Without bumblebees, the shelves at our local supermarkets would seem much emptier, the plots at our allotments would literally be
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Turn your sound up for buzz pollination, the bumblebee superpower no other insect in the UK has 🔊🐝 This unique ability allows bumblebees to release pollen for over 20,000 species of plant around the world, including garden displays, wildflowers, crops, and allotment favourites. But our bumblebees are struggling due to the loss of wildflowers and good nesting spots. Without bumblebees, the shelves at our local supermarkets would seem much emptier, the plots at our allotments would literally be
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Homeless bumblebee queens are on a mission to find somewhere to nest - and they urgently need your help 🐝 | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Homeless bumblebee queens are on a mission to find somewhere to nest - and they urgently need your help 🐝 | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Which bumblebee is the cutest? 1. Bumblebee deep breathing: abdominal pumping moves oxygen to the muscles pre-flight 😮‍💨 2. Digging through leaf litter to find a cosy hibernation spot for the winter 💤 3. Resting post-hibernation, allowing the body to adjust to being awake ☮️ 4. A quick groom (every bumblebee must look their bee-st) 🔥 Have you seen your first bumblebee of 2025? | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Which bumblebee is the cutest? 1. Bumblebee deep breathing: abdominal pumping moves oxygen to the muscles pre-flight 😮‍💨 2. Digging through leaf litter to find a cosy hibernation spot for the winter 💤 3. Resting post-hibernation, allowing the body to adjust to being awake ☮️ 4. A quick groom (every bumblebee must look their bee-st) 🔥 Have you seen your first bumblebee of 2025? | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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The Garden bumblebee has the longest tongue of any bumblebee in the world – can you guess how long it is? 🌍🥇 Leave your answer below 📏 All of the UK’s 24 bumblebee species have different tongue lengths. This allows bumblebees to feed on a wide variety of flowers, whether they are flat and open, like a daisy, or long and bell-shaped, like a foxglove 🌷 🎥 Emily Sabin | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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The Garden bumblebee has the longest tongue of any bumblebee in the world – can you guess how long it is? 🌍🥇 Leave your answer below 📏 All of the UK’s 24 bumblebee species have different tongue lengths. This allows bumblebees to feed on a wide variety of flowers, whether they are flat and open, like a daisy, or long and bell-shaped, like a foxglove 🌷 🎥 Emily Sabin | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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The colder months can be tough for bumblebees. 🐝 Discover how you help in our FREE seasonal guide! | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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The colder months can be tough for bumblebees. 🐝 Discover how you help in our FREE seasonal guide! | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Today’s energy levels bee like … A Common carder bumblebee grooming in the sun 🐝 🎥 Sarah Rees | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Today’s energy levels bee like … A Common carder bumblebee grooming in the sun 🐝 🎥 Sarah Rees | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Have you ever heard the slow-motion buzz of a bumblebee? Sound up 🔊☝ Bumblebee wings rotate in a figure-of-eight as they are flapped up to 200 times per second ⏱️ 🎥 Tom Luck | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Have you ever heard the slow-motion buzz of a bumblebee? Sound up 🔊☝ Bumblebee wings rotate in a figure-of-eight as they are flapped up to 200 times per second ⏱️ 🎥 Tom Luck | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Bank holiday energy levels bee like … A Buff-tailed bumblebee grooming in the sun 🐝 Have you seen any bumblebees recently? 🎥 Jade Oliver | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Bank holiday energy levels bee like … A Buff-tailed bumblebee grooming in the sun 🐝 Have you seen any bumblebees recently? 🎥 Jade Oliver | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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A bustling white-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) nest preparing for a busy summer! 😍 You can help bumblebees by providing them with somewhere to nest - old mouse holes, undisturbed compost heaps, long tussocky grass, bird boxes and wooden decking are all ideal - and lots of bee-friendly flowers year-round. 🎥 Laura Shakespeare | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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A bustling white-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) nest preparing for a busy summer! 😍 You can help bumblebees by providing them with somewhere to nest - old mouse holes, undisturbed compost heaps, long tussocky grass, bird boxes and wooden decking are all ideal - and lots of bee-friendly flowers year-round. 🎥 Laura Shakespeare | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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This bumblebee loves a lavender buffet 💜 What is the buffet plant of choice for your local bumblebees? 🪻 🎥 Tom Luck | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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This bumblebee loves a lavender buffet 💜 What is the buffet plant of choice for your local bumblebees? 🪻 🎥 Tom Luck | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Look out for these Tree bumblebee behaviours this summer: 🐦 Tree bumblebees prefer to nest high above the ground – bird boxes containing old bird nests are a firm favourite. 🌡️ In hot weather, Tree bumblebees will work together to fan their nest to keep it cool. ❌ Bumblebees don’t gather in swarms (that’s honeybees). However … 🕺 Male Tree bumblebees perform a nest surveillance – they gather in a little dancing cloud outside a nest’s entrance. They are waiting for new queens to emerge. ⚔️ Mati
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Look out for these Tree bumblebee behaviours this summer: 🐦 Tree bumblebees prefer to nest high above the ground – bird boxes containing old bird nests are a firm favourite. 🌡️ In hot weather, Tree bumblebees will work together to fan their nest to keep it cool. ❌ Bumblebees don’t gather in swarms (that’s honeybees). However … 🕺 Male Tree bumblebees perform a nest surveillance – they gather in a little dancing cloud outside a nest’s entrance. They are waiting for new queens to emerge. ⚔️ Mati
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This bumblebee needed rescuing – all it took was a helping hand 🖐 Bumblebees are generally very calm creatures that quietly go about their business visiting flowers. If you find a bumblebee in need of rescue, the best way to help them is to pop them onto a nearby flower 🌼 #FlowerFirst 🎥 Helen King | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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This bumblebee needed rescuing – all it took was a helping hand 🖐 Bumblebees are generally very calm creatures that quietly go about their business visiting flowers. If you find a bumblebee in need of rescue, the best way to help them is to pop them onto a nearby flower 🌼 #FlowerFirst 🎥 Helen King | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Different bumblebee species like to nest in different places, including long, tangled grass, bird boxes, and underground in abandoned rodent holes 🏡 They can even nest in more creative places, like under the edge of a pond, as shown here. What is the most interesting place you have found a bumblebee nest? 🔊 Sound up for that happy bumblebee hum! 🎥 Jade Oliver | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Different bumblebee species like to nest in different places, including long, tangled grass, bird boxes, and underground in abandoned rodent holes 🏡 They can even nest in more creative places, like under the edge of a pond, as shown here. What is the most interesting place you have found a bumblebee nest? 🔊 Sound up for that happy bumblebee hum! 🎥 Jade Oliver | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Coming through! These bumblebee workers are on an important mission 🐝💨 Around now, teams of newly hatched daughters are taking over a crucial role previously carried out by their queen: collecting pollen and nectar from flowers 🌻 If you look closely, you can spot yellow bulges on the hind legs of the returning bumblebees. This steady supply of pollen will help feed larvae and support the queen to lay new batches of eggs 🐛 Different bumblebee species like to nest in different places, includin
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Coming through! These bumblebee workers are on an important mission 🐝💨 Around now, teams of newly hatched daughters are taking over a crucial role previously carried out by their queen: collecting pollen and nectar from flowers 🌻 If you look closely, you can spot yellow bulges on the hind legs of the returning bumblebees. This steady supply of pollen will help feed larvae and support the queen to lay new batches of eggs 🐛 Different bumblebee species like to nest in different places, includin
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Q: What happens to a bumblebee queen when she’s hibernating? 👑💤 A: A bumblebee’s metabolism – the internal reactions that break food down into energy – slows down so much that she doesn’t need to feed. Her body, which stays very still, survives by using its fat stores. She should have enough energy leftover in spring to fly and find new food. 🔎🐝 Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) 🎥 Teresa Lovell | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Q: What happens to a bumblebee queen when she’s hibernating? 👑💤 A: A bumblebee’s metabolism – the internal reactions that break food down into energy – slows down so much that she doesn’t need to feed. Her body, which stays very still, survives by using its fat stores. She should have enough energy leftover in spring to fly and find new food. 🔎🐝 Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) 🎥 Teresa Lovell | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Have you spotted this bumblebee in your local area? 🐝👀 Try these quick tips and see if you can identify one of the UK's most common bumblebees when you're out and about. What bumblebees have you seen so far this year? Help save our bumblebees and receive a FREE bumblebee ID bundle when you join 👉 https://ow.ly/5HPi50QXLac | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Have you spotted this bumblebee in your local area? 🐝👀 Try these quick tips and see if you can identify one of the UK's most common bumblebees when you're out and about. What bumblebees have you seen so far this year? Help save our bumblebees and receive a FREE bumblebee ID bundle when you join 👉 https://ow.ly/5HPi50QXLac | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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The Common carder bumblebee nests on the ground, often in thick, tangled grass 🐝 In spring, bumblebee queens look for these precious nest sites in our outdoor spaces. Why not let a patch of grass grow long to help them out? 🏠 What are you doing in your outdoor space to help bumblebees? 📽️ Katy Malone | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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The Common carder bumblebee nests on the ground, often in thick, tangled grass 🐝 In spring, bumblebee queens look for these precious nest sites in our outdoor spaces. Why not let a patch of grass grow long to help them out? 🏠 What are you doing in your outdoor space to help bumblebees? 📽️ Katy Malone | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Shhh! This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen may have recently emerged from hibernation – so what is she doing here? 👑🎶 🔊 If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the queen's wings vibrating together. She appears to be basking on the mossy bank as she is too cold to fly. 🌡️ On a cool, sunny day like this, a bumblebee can raise their body temperature by dislocating their wings and shivering their flight muscles to reach the snug 30°C they need to fly. This is the buzzing you can hear. 👋 Th
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Shhh! This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen may have recently emerged from hibernation – so what is she doing here? 👑🎶 🔊 If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the queen's wings vibrating together. She appears to be basking on the mossy bank as she is too cold to fly. 🌡️ On a cool, sunny day like this, a bumblebee can raise their body temperature by dislocating their wings and shivering their flight muscles to reach the snug 30°C they need to fly. This is the buzzing you can hear. 👋 Th
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This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen is brushing pollen grains out of her hair and collecting it in her pollen baskets. Can you spot the bright yellow bulges on her hind legs? 💛 What spring flowers are your local bumblebees tucking into? 🌷 🔊 Sound up! This slowed-down footage is paired with the sweet, springtime song of a skylark 🎶 🎥 Jamie Buxton-Gould | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen is brushing pollen grains out of her hair and collecting it in her pollen baskets. Can you spot the bright yellow bulges on her hind legs? 💛 What spring flowers are your local bumblebees tucking into? 🌷 🔊 Sound up! This slowed-down footage is paired with the sweet, springtime song of a skylark 🎶 🎥 Jamie Buxton-Gould | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Is this bumblebee knitting? 🧶 This underside shot shows how female bumblebees collect pollen by brushing the fine grains out of their hair and into the pollen baskets on their hind legs. Still, how cute would it be to see bumblebee queens wrapped in tiny wooly jumpers as they settle down to hibernate over winter? 🔊 Sound up for that bee-utiful buzz! 🎥 Tom Luck | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Is this bumblebee knitting? 🧶 This underside shot shows how female bumblebees collect pollen by brushing the fine grains out of their hair and into the pollen baskets on their hind legs. Still, how cute would it be to see bumblebee queens wrapped in tiny wooly jumpers as they settle down to hibernate over winter? 🔊 Sound up for that bee-utiful buzz! 🎥 Tom Luck | Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Shhh! This bumblebee queen is settling down to sleep – be careful not to disturb her! 👑💤 This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen is digging through the leaf litter to find a cosy spot for a winter snooze. Once their favourite flowers have gone to seed and died off, bumblebee queens emerge from their nests and look for somewhere safe to hibernate. Queen bumblebees will hibernate in a variety of places, including leaf litter, well-drained soil, hollow trees and inside tree bark 🍂 | Bumblebee Conservat
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Shhh! This bumblebee queen is settling down to sleep – be careful not to disturb her! 👑💤 This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen is digging through the leaf litter to find a cosy spot for a winter snooze. Once their favourite flowers have gone to seed and died off, bumblebee queens emerge from their nests and look for somewhere safe to hibernate. Queen bumblebees will hibernate in a variety of places, including leaf litter, well-drained soil, hollow trees and inside tree bark 🍂 | Bumblebee Conservat
29K viewsDec 15, 2024
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Where do new bumblebee queens go in winter? They hibernate underground! In this fascinating video, a Buff-tail queen (Bombus terrestris) and Red-tailed queen (Bombus lapidarius) are seen looking for a place to hibernate. The only time bumblebees really dig is when they are about to go into hibernation, which is how new queens survive over winter. It is very rare to witness bumblebees doing this, so to witness two queens potentially doing it in the same place is especially rare! Amazingly, three
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Where do new bumblebee queens go in winter? They hibernate underground! In this fascinating video, a Buff-tail queen (Bombus terrestris) and Red-tailed queen (Bombus lapidarius) are seen looking for a place to hibernate. The only time bumblebees really dig is when they are about to go into hibernation, which is how new queens survive over winter. It is very rare to witness bumblebees doing this, so to witness two queens potentially doing it in the same place is especially rare! Amazingly, three
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