Shrill Carder Bee

Sharing ecology info & conservation news about one of our most declined & vulnerable bumblebees. Updates from SCB Conservation Strategy 2020-30 #ShrillCarderBee

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

Fancy helping our Shrill Carder Bumblebee's?

Take a look at our recent vacancy!

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

We are looking for a Conservation Projects Manager (Species Recovery) Maternity Cover 🐝

🕒 Part-time (24 hours per week)
📍 Home based in Southern/South West England with frequent travel to Somerset & potentially South Wales

Full details: https://t.co/yPpHRZOPMu

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

Check out our latest press release: 🐝Latest on rare bumblebee in Somerset (https://t.co/bvEamsf4g9)

@BumblebeeTrust @nikkigammans

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Somerset Council @SomersetCouncil]

We are working on a Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for Somerset. This will provide a single vision for nature recovery and set out local priorities and opportunities for nature. Want to get involved? Visit https://t.co/5if5SpMRqs #SomersetLNRS #NatureRecovery @SomersetLNP

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

📢 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 👉 https://t.co/0EQCLfBo2F

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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 🐝

[BuzzingSouthEast @nikkigammans]

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.

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

Fantastic news!

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

Just a reminder to submit any recent sightings to the online recording form 🐝 #ShrillCarderBee #SaveOurShrills #RareBumblebees #Bumblebees

https://t.co/vlY1WI4tGn

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

Great news 🐝

[Kayleigh @KayleighSSSOSL]

Shrill Carder Bees are back in great numbers in Trowbridge Meadow 🐝 With Common, Moss and Brown Banded Carder #bees around too plus plenty of butterflies, beetles and flowers. The shrills are loving the red bartsia #WildCardiffHour @IoloWilliams2 @BuzzingWales @BuzzingShrill

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

Fantastic news for our #ShrillCarderBee 🐝☺️

[Amanda @MamblyBrookman]

A new second location for Bombus sylvarum near Faversham thanks to the regenerative farming of @NeilAnderson4 @nikkigammans @StevenFalk1 @kent_field #bees

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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!

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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!

[Shrill Carder Bee @BuzzingShrill]

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