How many bumblebees can you identify? 🔎🐝 With 24 UK bumblebee species, it can sometimes be tricky to tell them apart. Dr Nikki Gammans and Scarlett Weston from our Buzzing South East team share an easy way to get to know your bumblebees better 🪪 Have you seen your first bumblebee of 2025? Were you able to identify her? 📖 Treat yourself this #WorldBookDay with a copy of 'Bumblebees: An Introduction': https://ow.ly/gs2T50Vb1mR | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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