Seems to be one of the few bumblebees in Britain which nests in tit boxes up trees, rather than on the ground. Common carder bee BOMBUS PASCUORUM Few people would recognise it as a bumblebee owing ...

Jessica leaves perennials intact for overwintering insects and allows wool carder bees to steal lamb ... “Seventy percent of bee species nest in the ground,” Phyllis says.

I did as advised and let my dandelions grow during May and was rewarded by a visit from this large bumblebee. Which species ...

"Bumblebee nests are hard to find ... One of the reasons for the decline in the common carder-bee could be that its favourite flowers are disappearing. The long-tongued bees favour plants like ...

Wool-carder bees get their name from the nest building behavior of the female bees. Females collect plant hairs, called trichomes, by cutting them with their mandibles. The up-and-down motion they ...

Getty Images The strategy proposes helping the hazel dormouse thrive by providing nest boxes Several species ... to support the rare red-shanked carder bee. Dr Richard Cormont, from the Bumblebee ...

teasing out the individual hairs with her sharply-toothed jaws for use in the construction and lining of brood cells in her nest. Her industry earned the species the common name 'Wool Carder Bee'.

The short-haired bee disappeared from our shores in the 1980s and RSPB Dungeness reserve in Kent started a mission to reintroduce it. After two releases of queen bees at the site experts have now ...