Bombus
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| Bombus
hypnorum is the newest Bumble Bee species to
colonise the UK, first arriving in 2001. It has rapidly
spread north and finally reached Nottinghamshire in 2009,
where it was first recorded from Worksop. Other
Nottinghamshire records quickly followed in the early
part of 2010, before we found what is believed to be
Nottinghamshire's fifth record, at Gamston Wood near
Retford in July 2010. Bombus hypnorum is a distinctive tri-coloured and easily recognised Bumble Bee, that stands out clearly from the much commoner Bombus pascuorum. It's spread is expected to continue and it is likely to become increasingly common throughout Nottinghamshire over the next few years. 2011 has seen a dramatic increase in the number of sightings from our own records, with a queen and then workers visiting a Mapperley garden in April and May, workers visiting Cotoneaster horizontalis flowers in a Worksop garden, at Wellow Park near Ollerton and a Market Warsop garden in May 2011. |
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| Photographed at Mapperley, Nottingham May 2011 | ||
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| Photographed at Gamston Wood in July 2010 | ||
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| UK distribution of Bombus
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 The UK distribution maps on eakringbirds.com are provided by the National Biodiversity Network (NBN Gateway) Each red square on the map indicates species present in 10km grid squares. Updated September 2011 |
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