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project area is now almost certainly the The top twenty flower
best place in the country for the Ruderal forage species visited
bumblebee, a species which at one time by rare (UK S41/BAP)
looked to be following the Short-haired bumblebees recorded
bumblebee towards extinction. On by the Short-haired
bumblebee project
nature reserves which have worked with
the project, bumblebees have increased
up to eightfold: on farmed areas (where
work has generally been less intensive)
bumblebees are up threefold.

The Short-haired bumblebee may
still be extinct in the UK. But the
future of our 24 remaining species
is more secure because of a
decade’s work by the Short-haired
bumblebee project.

For more information about the
project,visit:
www.bumblebeeconservation.
org/projects or @nikkigammans
on Twitter

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bumblebeeconservation.teemill.co.uk

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