Charlotte Rankin

Big love for invertebrates & wildflowers. Bonkers about #Bumblebees. Enjoys #WildlifeRecording. Pollinator Conservation Officer 🔎🐝🐞

Insta: charlotte.bumble

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

GREAT YELLOW BUMBLEBEES! 😭🐝

It has been a dream for so long to see this beautiful bumble!

Seeing queens happily buzzing away in glorious machair, feasting on Kidney Vetch, with baskets full of pollen has filled my heart with so much joy 💛

#NationalInsectWeek @BumblebeeTrust

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

@BuzzingWales Thank you, it was lovely!!

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝

🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted
🔎 15 species recorded
🥾 84 miles walked

A huge thank you for your support & donations for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust!

There’s still time to donate if you can to help bumbles ⤵️

https://t.co/lXAmzPzelh

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

My notebook is full of bumblebee sightings to share with the North East Bee Hunt, a citizen science project led by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, to help increase understanding of our region’s bumbles 🔎🐝

https://t.co/cP7kc3hxod

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

The final section of my North-bumble-land Coast Walk today!

🐝 931 bumblebees counted
🔎 15 species recorded
🚶‍♀️ 172,356 steps for bumbles
..so far!

Please share and donate if you can to help bumblebees! ⤵️

https://t.co/lXAmzPzelh

📸 Moss Carder Bee from this morning!

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

I'm currently bumbling along the Northumberland Coast for @bumblebeetrust! 🐝👣

Along the way, I’m recording my sightings for the #NorthEastBeeHunt ...372 bumbles of 12 species so far!

Thank you so much for donations so far!
https://t.co/A8hA1ied9m

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

I'm bumbling along the Northumberland Coast Path for
@bumblebeetrust! 🐝👣

& along the way, I’ll be sharing my bumble sightings with the North East Bee Hunt 📝🔎

Please share, or donate if you can, to support my ‘North-bumble-land’ Walk this June! ⤵️

https://t.co/lXAmzPzelh

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

@AllenStuartHol2 @wurflenii @BumblebeeTrust Beautiful!

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

@smurfett722 @s4r4h_l @duncan_dine @Lancswildlife @pam_mcinnes @lancsgp Lovely, yes it looks like Chocolate Mining Bee, Andrena scotia :)

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

A beautiful queen Bilberry Bumblebee near Allenheads this weekend, soaking up the last of the autumn sun & nectar before her winter sleep 💛

#NorthEastBeeHunt

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

@CommonByNature 🥳😊💛

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

@BuzzingScotland Aaah!! Enjoy 💛

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

Clinging onto bumblebee season by taking a trip to the North Pennines on the search for Broken-belted Bumblebees 🔎

Males at Low Force, Bowlees Quarry and on a verge full of Devil’s-bit Scabious, with lovely male Heath Bumblebees along the way too 🐝

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

A lovely male Broken-belted Bumblebee, spotted during @NENature_’s Field Skills trip near Allenheads yesterday.

Rocking his lion’s mane and peachy bottom 🦁🍑

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

Lovely to see Heath Bumblebee males out and about this evening, enjoying Devil’s-bit Scabious. Balls of fluff 💛💜

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

@pmnogue location & plant wise, most likely Davies 😊

[Allen Stuart Holmes @AllenStuartHol2]

Bombus monticola, males. Cant Clough res, Burnley. My first males this year. @PaulWilliamsNHM @bumble_being @BumblebeeTrust @wurflenii

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

Finding fritillaries! 🦋

My first High Brown (left) and Silver-Washed (right) Fritillary, such stunning butterflies!

@savebutterflies @BC_Cumbria

[Charlotte Rankin @bumble_being]

Wasn’t expecting to see a Bilberry Bumblebee as I got out the car!

A teeny worker feasting on Ragwort at a car park in Kirkby Stephen 💛

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

Can you guess the names of these UK bumblebees? 🐝 #WorldEmojiDay

Share your answers below 👇

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

Join us on Facebook Live tomorrow lunchtime for a live BeeWalk 🐝

Dive into the world of bumblebees and find out more about our national recording scheme, BeeWalk, and how you can help bumblebees 📋

This is also your chance to ask our bumblebee experts your buzzing questions 👀