Shrill Carder Bee

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Fancy helping our Shrill Carder Bumblebee's? Take a look at our recent vacancy!

Great new community interpretation board introducing the wonderful wildlife of Kingsdon in Somerset, including the Shrill Carder, funded by Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust

Great day out @RSPBNewport wetlands with the @BumblebeeTrust Somerset Volunteer group, practising our Shrill carder and Brown-banded carder bee identification.

Check out our latest press release: 🐝Latest on rare bumblebee in Somerset (bumblebeeconservation.org) @BumblebeeTrust @nikkigammans

To celebrate #worldbeeday we've been out with local residents of Drayton, within the Save Our Shrills Somerset project area, looking for bees! Found some lovely species including a very compliant Tree bumblebee @BumblebeeTrust

Somerset is one of the last remaining 5 locations in England and Wales still supporting the rare Shrill carder bumblebee - protect the habitats this species and other pollinators need by helping to shape the LNRS

📢 NEW vacancy! The Trust is looking for a new Save our Shrills (SOS): Somerset Project Trainee 🐝 Jasmine, last year’s project trainee, shares her experience of working at the Trust and what it is like to be a part of the project. Full details 👉 ow.ly/IV0P50QtrYP

Thank you to all our volunteers who helped us move and replant Comfrey at @nationaltrust Lytes Cary Manor on Saturday! Once established, the comfrey will provide important forage for #ShrillCarderBees 🐝

We had a lovely day exploring Thamesmead for rare bumblebees yesterday as part of the Thamesmead Pollinator Corridor project. @BumblebeeTrust staff and local volunteers spread out and recorded shrill carder workers & a male and brown banded workers & males.

Fantastic news!

Huge thanks to @mod_dio for hosting Trust staff on Salisbury Plain Training Area (#SPTA) to carry out a survey of #bee species, with support from their Environmental Engagement team, DIO ecologists, and the SPTA Conservation Group 🐝@BuzzingShrill #Survey #SalisburyPlain

Just a reminder to submit any recent sightings to the online recording form 🐝 #ShrillCarderBee #SaveOurShrills #RareBumblebees #Bumblebees bwars.com/content/submit…

Great news 🐝

First day of August and the @mod_dio Castlemartin Range is open for the month! We found plenty of Shrill carders out and about enjoying the sunshine! Populations are in a little trouble in Pembrokeshire now, so it was reassuring to see so many today. @PembsCoast

Fantastic news for our #ShrillCarderBee 🐝☺️

Thank you to everyone who came to the #SaveOurShrills ID Training event at @HealRewilding No Shrills of course, but we found many of our common #bumblebee species, including lots of Red-tailed bumblebees 🐝 Great to meet so many supporters keen to develop their skills #Somerset

Sadly we are cancelling this event due to the forecast downpour. Watch this space for the rescheduled date!

Just a reminder of the Shrill carder bee day we are hosting with the RSPB at @RSPBNewport this Saturday (22nd). A day full of fun bumblebee activities for adults and kids - see you there from 10.30am!

Thistle do nicely! This #ForageFriday we're focussing on all the thistles, like this Creeping Thistle, that are adding a splash of purple to grasslands and verges. They're often busy with #bumblebees in July and Shrills have previously been recorded on thistles 🐝#ShrillCarderBee