The wings of a bumblebee are driven by powerful muscles that facilitate buzz pollination and can also be used to raise temperature. Bees have two pairs of wings
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Bee Walks and Talks
Come and join me for a bee walk in a summer garden, or why not book me for your garden event?
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Emerging Queens
The first bumblebees we see in late winter and early spring are the overwintered Queen bees setting up a nest
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Snowdrops
Snowdrops are the harbingers of spring. As they start to poke their noses through the cold winter ground in November […]
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Shrill Carder Bee
There are a fair few rare bee species, with some literally on the brink of extinction, but few more so than the Shrill Carder Bee (Bombus sylvarum).