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! NT Sandscale Haws NNR

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!

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, Natural England Cumbria #SolitaryBeeWeek

A sedge filled Sunday with Charlotte Rankin today near Orton in Cumbria. Over 15 species seen in the wetlands and flushes including these 8. Hair Sedge, Flat Sedge, Dioecious Sedge, Great Fen-sedge, Tufted Sedge, Long-stalked Yellow-sedge, Flea Sedge and Star Sedge.

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

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 👀

Can you guess the names of these UK bumblebees? 🐝 #WorldEmojiDay Share your answers below 👇

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 💛

Finding fritillaries! 🦋 My first High Brown (left) and Silver-Washed (right) Fritillary, such stunning butterflies! Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Cumbria Butterfly Conservation

Bombus monticola, males. Cant Clough res, Burnley. My first males this year. Paul Williams Charlotte Rankin Bumblebee Conservation Trust Bumblebees etc.

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

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

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

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! ⤵️ justgiving.com/page/charlotte…

I'm currently bumbling along the Northumberland Coast for Bumblebee Conservation Trust! 🐝👣 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! justgiving.com/page/charlotte…

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! ⤵️ justgiving.com/page/charlotte… 📸 Moss Carder Bee from this morning!