Rare bumblebee reintroduced to UK

05/29/2012 admin Bees

A bumblebee which vanished from the English countryside almost a quarter of a century ago has been reintroduced. Around 100 short-haired bumblebees (Bombus subterraneus) were brought across from Sweden to repopulate areas where it previously thrived in the UK, and around 50 of the healthiest were released at the RSPB’s Dungeness reserve in Kent. The [...]

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1 Bees, Bumblebee Conservation, DEFRA, Henricus Peters, NAEEUK, short-haired bumblebees, The Independent, Wildlife