Five facts about the Common carder bumblebee: 🎱 One of the Big Eight common and widespread UK bumblebees. 📍 Found in most habitats, including gardens, parks, and the wider countryside. 🌿 Nest on the ground, often in long grass or mossy vegetation. 👑💼🚹 Queens, workers and males have the same colour pattern. 🌷 Favourite plants include foxgloves, figworts, clovers, vetches and thistles. Are you starting to see more bumblebees now compared to previous weeks? 🎥 Helen King | Bumblebee Conserva

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