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205K views · 3.7K reactions | Different bumblebee species like to nest in different places, including long, tangled grass, bird boxes, and underground in abandoned rodent holes  They can even nest in more creative places, like under the edge of a pond, as shown here. What is the most interesting place you have found a bumblebee nest?  Sound up for that happy bumblebee hum!  Jade Oliver | Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Facebook

There are three identical White-tailed bumblebee species. So how can we tell them apart? The answer: by analysing their DNA 🧬 In Britain, the only species thought to be present was the true White-tailed bumblebee. It wasn’t clear if the Northern White-tailed bumblebee and the Cryptic bumblebee were two other species or different colour forms of the White-tailed bumblebee. But examination of their DNA revealed them to be three separate species. The queens, females and males of the true White-tai

Different bumblebee species have different length tongues. We divide bumblebees into ‘short’ or ‘long-tongued’ species, and they will forage on different plants depending on their tongue length! The Early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) has a short tongue and likes to forage on blackcurrents, raspberries, white clover, white deadnettle and borage. Just look at this Early bumblebee delving into the white jewel-like flowers of this Pieris! You can see it extending its tongue into the corolla of the fl