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

Turn your sound up for buzz pollination, the bumblebee superpower no other insect in the UK has 🔊🐝 This unique ability allows bumblebees to release pollen for over 20,000 species of plant around the world, including garden displays, wildflowers, crops, and allotment favourites. But our bumblebees are struggling due to the loss of wildflowers and good nesting spots. Without bumblebees, the shelves at our local supermarkets would seem much emptier, the plots at our allotments would literally be