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

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 🔎🐝 .

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 ⤵️.

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! ⤵️. 📸 Moss Carder Bee from this morning!

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!.

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! ⤵️.

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

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 🐝

A lovely male Broken-belted Bumblebee, spotted during @NENature_’s Field Skills trip near Allenheads yesterday. Rocking his lion’s mane and peachy bottom 🦁🍑

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

RT @AllenStuartHol2: Bombus monticola, males. Cant Clough res, Burnley. My first males this year. @PaulWilliamsNHM @bumble_being @Bumblebee….

Finding fritillaries! 🦋. My first High Brown (left) and Silver-Washed (right) Fritillary, such stunning butterflies!. @savebutterflies @BC_Cumbria

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 💛

RT @BumblebeeTrust: Can you guess the names of these UK bumblebees? 🐝 #WorldEmojiDay. Share your answers below 👇

RT @BumblebeeTrust: Join us on Facebook Live tomorrow lunchtime for a live BeeWalk 🐝. Dive into the world of bumblebees and find out more a….

It’s always such a treat to find a bumblebee nest! 💛. There’s lots of tussocky grass to choose from at @cumbriawildlife’s Gosling Sike garden, but a Common Carder queen has decided to make her home in a raised bed (full of herbs! 🪴)

RT @RyanClarkNature: A sedge filled Sunday with @bumble_being today near Orton in Cumbria. Over 15 species seen in the wetlands and flushes….

Found a snazzy looking nomad bee yesterday at a local NNR, which turns out to be the rare Nomada roberjeotiana!. I’ve not seen its host, Tormentil Mining Bee, there before, so I walked back to a good Tormentil patch & there it was! . Finglandrigg Wood, @NECumbria #SolitaryBeeWeek

We’re going to Uist this month! Aaaaah! 🐝🐛🌸. Any tips, places we must visit, advice on how to cope if I see Great Yellow BB 🤞😭, would be much appreciated!.

Osmia aurulenta nest! 🥺💛🐚. I could hear a buzz every now and then from inside, and she’s daubed little bits of leaf mastic on the shell!. @ntsandscalehaws