Sunday 30 August 2020

A Shrill Carder Bee (Bombus sylvarum) on the Crossness Nature Reserve and Surrounding area viz. the Norman Road Field

Nothing too special (they are regulars) but nice to see one and have some pictures viz.



According to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, 'other than the extinct and re-introduced Short-Haired Bumblebee (Bombus subterraneus), this is perhaps our rarest Bumblebee, now known from only a handful of sites in South Wales and Southern England and generally scarce even there.' The Crossness Nature Reserve and Surrounding area sustains a population of these Bumblebees.

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