Every year, 2000 volunteers from around the UK record a total of nearly one million bumblebees on regular routes, once a month as part of...

The sight of three large, healthy, queen Buff-tailed bumblebees foraging together on an early flowering Daphne odora last month, was a...

The bumblebees are all hiding away at the moment, hibernating in secure niches just waiting for the temperatures to rise above 10 C . It...

The strangely warm weather this Autumn has resulted in many Winter shrubs like Mahonia and Viburnum bodnantense flowering early. This...

A well-stocked garden will still have plenty of colour this month thanks to flowers like Cosmos, Salvia, Cyclamen, Dahlia and Nasturtium....

The lengthy period of hot weather put plants and animals under great stress and caused parched fields, dried up flowers, reduced fruit...

August should be a month in which we can enjoy the best weather that Summer has to offer, but this year it has come with a menacing...

What a wonderful time of year it is for bumblebee-spotters. There are fewer of the big queens on the wing but many more workers,...

We are now in the middle of summer and the temperatures have already reached comfortable heights although it is not so pleasant if you...

From March onwards we have been seeing queens of the Common carder bumblebee, Bombus pascuorum. Like the rest of her family, she has a...

Some reference books suggest that bumblebees do not emerge from hibernation until outside temperatures reach 10C. They then shiver to...

If all the bumblebees die, what then? Other bees like solitary ones and honeybees are pollinators, but if they died too, we would be...

So, where are all the bumblebees today? If you go for a walk in the countryside this month, you will probably not see any, nor will you...

Do bumblebees make honey? Yes they do but only to feed their own family, whereas honeybees make it for a colony which may contain 100,000...

When did you last hear or see a bumblebee? Most UK species have disappeared from our gardens by now...

Have you noticed that the ivy is beginning to flower? There are already plenty of bees drinking the nectar and you can hear the bushes...

What are the large bumblebees that we see foraging on our flowers with such enthusiasm this month? They look like the ones that have been...

When the hotter weather arrived this month, it transformed our gardens and hedges into a visual feast of colours and shapes.

Is it true that our bumblebees are suffering from Covid? Almost certainly not directly but perhaps they have as a result of...

A common sight in some gardens and allotments, a few parks and woods is that of a large bumblebee flying low to the ground looking as if...