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The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was established by Dave Goulson [1] in 2006 with a grant of £49,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. [2] There were serious concerns for the ‘plight of the bumblebees’, as the populations of bumblebees have significantly declined in the last 80 years [3] - two UK species have become nationally extinct and several others have declined dramatically.
A site transformed into mosaic of habitats has been awarded ‘champion status’ for the rare shrill carder bee.
Dave Goulson FRSE FRES (born 30 July 1965) [1] is Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) at the University of Sussex.Specializing in the ecology and conservation of insects, particularly bumblebees, Goulson is the author of several books, including Bumblebees: Their Behaviour and Ecology (2003), Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021), and more than 200 ...
A programme was started in 2009 to reintroduce it to the United Kingdom with queen bees from New Zealand. The programme was run by Natural England, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and bee and wasp charity Hymettus. [5] [6] However, this was not a success, as many of the queens died during ...
Worst-case scenarios suggest bumblebees lose up to 30% of their current habitat in the next 40–60 years.
Case in point: About 40% of the bee species assessed so far by the International Union for Conservation of Nature are bumblebees. This is despite the fact that bumblebees constitute a tiny sliver ...
B. hypnorum A tree bumble bee queen feeding Male B. hypnorum with many phoretic mites. The tree bumblebee or new garden bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) is a species of bumblebee common in the European continent and parts of Asia. Since the start of the twenty-first century, it has spread to Great Britain. These bumblebees prefer habitats that ...
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) claimed that Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee was at severe risk of extinction, qualifying it as critically endangered.