Page 2 - Bumblebee Conservation Trust Buzzword Magazine July 2020

Summer 2020 introduction
Contents The bumble blog Your photo gallery

Reflection 3. Bumble blog If you would like to see your
photo featured in Buzzword,
4. Gardening spotlight please email: media@
In our summer edition, we like to dedicate this page bumblebeeconservation.org
These past four months has been a 6. 2019 BeeWalk - the results to your photos. Here is a small selection from recent
unique time for all of us. The COVID-19 8. NEW 3D app brings UK bumblebees to months - thank you to everyone!
outbreak has presented challenges; it has life on your phone
changed our daily lives in ways we never
could have imagined. It has, for some 10. Parasites and pathogens of bumblebees
of us, made us reflect and re-evaluate 12. Online training
what is important in our lives. Listening to
stories of those who have lost their lives, 13. Welcome to our new trainees
young and old, those shielding or caring 14. How volunteers support the UK’s
for the vulnerable has affected many of us bumblebees
personally.
16. Working harder for the Shrill carder
Looking to the future, recovery from this
crisis will be a collective challenge. If 18. Your guide to 6 cuckoo bees
we are to ‘build back better’ from this 19. Looking for love
pandemic, we will all need to recognise
the intimate link between people and 20. Membership is going green!
nature. 21. Making an impact
We absolutely know that people’s health 22. Trust News
is intrinsically linked to the health of the
planet. The importance to people during
this crisis of green spaces, gardens,
woods, parks, of creatures that have
brought us such joy, bird song we heard 6 10 16 19
as the traffic ceased, the tiny creatures
we suddenly found in our gardens that
absorbed us, the buzz of our bumblebees Get in touch
cannot be underestimated.
When we can safely gather together Post Bumblebee Conservation Trust,

Beta Centre, Stirling University
again, the world will be different. Innovation Park, Stirling FK9 4NF
I hope that there will be an even
greater determination to rebalance our
relationship with nature and build a better, Phone 01786 594 130
healthier future.
Email
The Trust, like many conservation
charities, will be facing a difficult few enquiries@bumblebeeconservation.org
years. We expect our work to continue volunteering@bumblebeeconservation.org
unabated. Your support will membership@bumblebeeconservation.org
be even more important media@bumblebeeconservation.org
to us, thank you in
advance for all you do for
bumblebees.
Gill Perkins, CEO Cover picture
2 Tree bumblebee, worker (Bombus Saving the sound of summer! 3 3
hypnorum) by Laura Spiteri