News Source: The Scotsman
| 3 months ago
IT WAS just a tiny speck amid the miles of mountain expanse, but it was enough to catch the trained eye of Tim Ransom. A tiny inspect, measuring one millimetre long, was spotted in an area of gravel and weathered heather in the Cairngorms and has now...
News Source: The independent
| 3 months ago
A photograph issued by Natural England of a short-haired bumblebee which is to be reintroduced to Britain after becoming extinct in 2000 Alongside building canals and railways, navvies made a little-known contribution to biodiversity: collecting...
News Source: Times Online
| 3 months ago
A bumblebee species that has been extinct in Britain for almost a decade is to be reintroduced next year, from a colony of the insects that was exported to New Zealand over a century ago. Conservationists are to fly to MacKenzie County in New Zealandâ...
News Source: The Observer
| 3 months ago
A queen short-haired bumblebee, one of a species which died out in the UK, but survived in New Zealand after being shipped there more than 100 years ago, is to be reintroduced in the UK. Photograph: Bumblebee Conservation Trust/Dave Goulson British...