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The Secret Lives of Bumble Bees: Nesting and Overwintering

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We all deserve a rest. Bumblebee queens are no different 👑 💤 Once they emerge from their nest, new bumblebee queens spend a lot of time resting on the ground or other surfaces. They are conserving energy by not being too active. 🕒 After a few hours or days, these new queens will gradually disperse to feed and mate before either setting up their own nest or finding somewhere to hibernate over winter. 🌷 If you come across a resting bumblebee, leave it be. There's no need to do anything, unless

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Help us caption this video 🐝 Spring 2026 arrives in just under two months. What are you most looking forward to this spring? 🔎🐝 Buff-tailed bumblebee 🎥 Helen King | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Shhh! This Buff-tailed bumblebee queen may have recently emerged from hibernation – so what is she doing here? 👑🎶 🔊 If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the queen's wings vibrating together. She appears to be basking on the mossy bank as she is too cold to fly. 🌡️ On a cool, sunny day like this, a bumblebee can raise their body temperature by dislocating their wings and shivering their flight muscles to reach the snug 30°C they need to fly. This is the buzzing you can hear. 👋 Th

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Southeast Bumble Bee Atlas 2026 Training Webinar

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What should you do if you accidentally uncover a bumblebee nest? 🤔 This video, sent by Julz Sellars, is a fantastic example of how you can welcome bumblebees into your garden and protect them after accidentally disturbing their nest. This bumblebee nest was uncovered when a Wendy house was broken down. The entrance was then covered back up with a plant pot, leaving the bumblebees to happily zoom in and out of the holes 🐝💨 “On a personal note, the bumblebees have helped my thirteen-year-old da

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Help us protect bumblebees – before it’s too late 🚨 We don’t want to stop our vital work that supports bumblebee conservation. That’s why we’re asking for your help. 📊 £35 could train a new BeeWalk volunteer to help monitor bumblebee populations. 🌻 £100 could provide guidance to landowners to create more bumblebee-friendly areas. 🌿 £250 could create habitat roughly the size of a tennis court. Please, donate today: https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/give | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Are you still seeing bumblebees around? 🐝👀 Extinct in England and Wales, the Great Yellow bumblebee is now Scotland’s most threatened bumblebee. Here is a quick Q and A about them and how you can help: Q: What does a Great Yellow bumblebee look like? A: This rare bumblebee has: 🟡 Mostly yellow hair (hence the name). ⚫ A black band on the thorax (middle section) between the wings. Q: Where do they live? A: Once found across the UK, the Great Yellow bumblebee is now only found in the far north

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Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026? 🐝👀 As spring approaches, some bumblebee queens start to emerge from hibernation, while others enjoy a longer lie in. Here is a quick Q and A about snoozing queens and what to do if you find one: Q: If a bumblebee queen is disturbed during hibernation, is she able to go back into hibernation? 👑💤 A: Yes! It’s a bit like going back to sleep. Q: If you disturb a hibernating bumblebee queen and move her to a different space, will she survive? ❤️‍🩹 A

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It took just four days after planting this mahonia for the first hungry visitor to arrive: a Buff-tailed bumblebee queen 👑 What have you planted to feed winter-active bumblebees? How soon after planting something has it taken your local bumblebees to tuck in? ⏱️ 🎥 Helen King | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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California Bumble Bee Atlas 2026 Training Webinar

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Southeast Bumble Bee Identification Webinar

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November is the perfect time to plant fruit trees – they will provide spring flowers for bumblebees and tasty fruit for you later in the year 🍐🐝 There’s a fruit tree for everyone and their outdoor space with a range of: 🍒 Species (apple, cherry, plum, pear, apricot) 🍎 Fruit varieties (e.g. cooking vs eating apples) 🪴 Sizes (dwarf or standard) Have a big garden? Choose several! Have a small space? Go for something that will be happy growing in a large container. Before you buy, it's best to

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Eight species of bumblebee in the UK are on the brink of extinction 🚨 Two of our most threatened species – the Great Yellow bumblebee and the Moss carder bumblebee – need urgent action, before it’s too late 💔 Please, sponsor a species today using the link in the comments 💛🧡 | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Look out for these Tree bumblebee behaviours this summer: 🐦 Tree bumblebees prefer to nest high above the ground – bird boxes containing old bird nests are a firm favourite. 🌡️ In hot weather, Tree bumblebees will work together to fan their nest to keep it cool. ❌ Bumblebees don’t gather in swarms (that’s honeybees). However … 🕺 Male Tree bumblebees perform a nest surveillance – they gather in a little dancing cloud outside a nest’s entrance. They are waiting for new queens to emerge. ⚔️ Mati

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Bee the Change you want to see in 2026. Become a Benefactor or Family member and receive a FREE bumblebee soft toy worth £18 🐝✨ With your support, we can: 🌻 Create and restore wildflower habitats 🤝 Provide advice to landowners, farmers, and communities on how to make their land more bumblebee-friendly 📊 Research bumblebee decline and prevention through our bumblebee-monitoring scheme, BeeWalk 🪧 Influence decision makers to prioritise pollinators, not pesticides 🐝 Lead the fight to secure a

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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

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All together now ... These Tree bumblebees are fanning their nest to keep it cool 🌡️ Most UK bumblebees nest on or underground in our gardens and green spaces. Tree bumblebees, however, prefer to nest high above the ground – bird boxes containing old bird nests are a firm favourite 🐦 Have you spotted a Tree bumblebee nest? 🎥 Annette Knight | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Little bumblebee, what are you doing? 🤔 This Red-tailed cuckoo bumblebee female is likely looking for a hibernation spot. In this instance, she attempted to dig into the compacted earth of a woodland path before giving up and wandering off to find a more suitable spot 🛏️ Did you know ...? 🐦 A cuckoo bumblebee female is so named because, like the bird, she will go into the nest of a social bumblebee and take it over for herself. 🥸 Each species of cuckoo bumblebee has a preferred species of ho

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Can you tell the difference between a bumblebee and a honeybee? They might look alike, but there are 5 BIG differences 🐝🍯 Which of these differences blew your mind? | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Save bumblebees with a gift membership packed with bumblebee goodies: 📖 Buzzword magazine (x3 a year) 🔎 Pocket bumblebee ID guide 🌱 Wildflower seeds 🛡️ Bumblebee pin badge 🌷 Bumblebee information guides 🎁 A gift card with a personalised message ✨ Plus lots more! A gift membership supports our vital conservation work by helping us to: 🌻 Create and restore wildflower habitats 📊 Study the effects of climate change on bumblebees and research ways to reverse their decline 🤝 Work with landown

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You see a stranded bumblebee. What do you do? 🐝 Remember to ask yourself these three questions: Q1: Is the bumblebee in a place where it might get squashed? 🥾 Yes – If it’s safe for you, gently move the bumblebee to a sheltered place outdoors. No – Question 2 Q2: Has the bumblebee been in the same place for a long time (over 45 minutes)? ⏱️ Yes – Question 3 No – Give the bumblebee time to rest and recuperate, check back in 30-45 minutes. Q3: Are there any bumblebee-friendly flowers around? 🪻

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What is your favourite bumblebee? You can only pick ONE 🐝 Does your favourite bumblebee not appear in this video? Perhaps it's a bumblebee you saw earlier this year. Let us know! #Bumblebees #Bees #Pollinators #Wildlife #NatureLovers #Nature #Fact | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Get your dose of bumblebee goodness – don’t you just love that bum wiggle? 🐝 We could watch this Buff-tailed bumblebee queen grooming all day 👑 Share with a friend who needs a bumblebee top up 🔋 🎥 Helen King | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Dr. Leif Richardson: California Bumble Bee Atlas: Community Science for Native Bee Conservation

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How much do you know about the bumblebee lifecycle? ❄️ Bumblebee queens spend the entire winter hibernating alone. 🌷 When a queen first emerges from hibernation in spring, she feeds on flowers, drinking nectar to gain energy. 🏠 Then begins the search for a suitable nest site: holes in the ground, long grass, bird boxes and beneath garden sheds. 🌼 Having chosen her nest site, the queen will collect pollen and nectar from flowers, and lay her first batch of eggs. 🐛 Little white larvae hatch, w

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Hap-bee Mother's Day! Buff-tailed bumblebee queens are some of the hardest-working mums in nature – if they could tell us how they spend the year, it would bee something like this 🐝👑 Mid to late summer 💛 I leave home after 6 weeks to find a male from another nest to mate with. 🚹 Male bumblebees live for 1-2 weeks. Don’t wait around! 🌷 Now a widow, I feast on pollen and nectar to stock up for winter hibernation. Autumn and winter ❄️ I spend the entire winter hibernating alone. 🍂 Ideally in

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Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2025? 👀 Bee-lieve it or not, there have already been sightings of our beloved bumblers this month 😍 While we usually associate bumblebees with the sound of summer, some species like the Buff-tailed bumblebee are active through the winter months, especially along the south coast. Keep your eyes peeled next time you’re out on a winter walk! Support our conservation work by recording the bumblebees you see in 2025: https://ow.ly/pJeG50UKWs9 🎥 Jade Oliver

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Eat, pollinate and be rosemary 🌿🐝 Discover the best bumblebee-friendly plants for community groups and home gardeners with our community planting guide 🌱 We've listed plants by flowering time, so you can make sure you’re providing food for bumblebees across the seasons 🍂 What are you growing in your garden or community space? Get growing: https://ow.ly/b18v50VM1Z2 🎥 Chloe Headdon | Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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