Sharing ecology info & conservation news about one of our most declined & vulnerable bumblebees. Updates from SCB Conservation Strategy 2020-30 #ShrillCarderBee
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10 Jun 2025
Fancy helping our Shrill Carder Bumblebee's?
Take a look at our recent vacancy!
9 Jun 2025
We are looking for a Conservation Projects Manager (Species Recovery) Maternity Cover 🐝
🕒 Part-time (24 hours per week)
📍 Home based in Southern/South West England with frequent travel to Somerset & potentially South Wales
Full details: ow.ly/WpXb50W69AX
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26 Mar 2025
Great new community interpretation board introducing the wonderful wildlife of Kingsdon in Somerset, including the Shrill Carder, funded by Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust
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22 Aug 2024
Great day out @RSPBNewport wetlands with the @BumblebeeTrust Somerset Volunteer group, practising our Shrill carder and Brown-banded carder bee identification.
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11 Jun 2024
Check out our latest press release: 🐝Latest on rare bumblebee in Somerset (bumblebeeconservation.org)
@BumblebeeTrust @nikkigammans
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20 May 2024
To celebrate #worldbeeday we've been out with local residents of Drayton, within the Save Our Shrills Somerset project area, looking for bees! Found some lovely species including a very compliant Tree bumblebee
@BumblebeeTrust
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5 Feb 2024
Somerset is one of the last remaining 5 locations in England and Wales still supporting the rare Shrill carder bumblebee - protect the habitats this species and other pollinators need by helping to shape the LNRS
18 Jan 2024
We are working on a Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for Somerset. This will provide a single vision for nature recovery and set out local priorities and opportunities for nature. Want to get involved? Visit somerset.gov.uk/lnrs #SomersetLNRS #NatureRecovery @SomersetLNP
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Shrill Carder Bee retweeted
23 Jan 2024
📢 NEW vacancy!
The Trust is looking for a new Save our Shrills (SOS): Somerset Project Trainee 🐝
Jasmine, last year’s project trainee, shares her experience of working at the Trust and what it is like to be a part of the project.
Full details 👉 ow.ly/IV0P50QtrYP
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1 Nov 2023
Thank you to all our volunteers who helped us move and replant Comfrey at @nationaltrust Lytes Cary Manor on Saturday! Once established, the comfrey will provide important forage for #ShrillCarderBees 🐝
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Shrill Carder Bee retweeted
7 Sep 2023
We had a lovely day exploring Thamesmead for rare bumblebees yesterday as part of the Thamesmead Pollinator Corridor project. @BumblebeeTrust staff and local volunteers spread out and recorded shrill carder workers & a male and brown banded workers & males.
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Shrill Carder Bee retweeted
25 Aug 2023
Huge thanks to @mod_dio for hosting Trust staff on Salisbury Plain Training Area (#SPTA) to carry out a survey of #bee species, with support from their Environmental Engagement team, DIO ecologists, and the SPTA Conservation Group 🐝@BuzzingShrill #Survey #SalisburyPlain
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2 Aug 2023
Just a reminder to submit any recent sightings to the online recording form 🐝 #ShrillCarderBee #SaveOurShrills #RareBumblebees #Bumblebees
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2 Aug 2023
Great news 🐝
1 Aug 2023
Shrill Carder Bees are back in great numbers in Trowbridge Meadow 🐝 With Common, Moss and Brown Banded Carder #bees around too plus plenty of butterflies, beetles and flowers. The shrills are loving the red bartsia #WildCardiffHour @IoloWilliams2 @BuzzingWales @BuzzingShrill
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1 Aug 2023
First day of August and the @mod_dio Castlemartin Range is open for the month! We found plenty of Shrill carders out and about enjoying the sunshine!
Populations are in a little trouble in Pembrokeshire now, so it was reassuring to see so many today.
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27 Jul 2023
Fantastic news for our #ShrillCarderBee 🐝☺️
26 Jul 2023
A new second location for Bombus sylvarum near Faversham thanks to the regenerative farming of @NeilAnderson4 @nikkigammans @StevenFalk1 @kent_field #bees
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27 Jul 2023
Thank you to everyone who came to the #SaveOurShrills ID Training event at @HealRewilding
No Shrills of course, but we found many of our common #bumblebee species, including lots of Red-tailed bumblebees 🐝 Great to meet so many supporters keen to develop their skills #Somerset
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20 Jul 2023
Sadly we are cancelling this event due to the forecast downpour. Watch this space for the rescheduled date!
18 Jul 2023
Just a reminder of the Shrill carder bee day we are hosting with the RSPB at @RSPBNewport this Saturday (22nd). A day full of fun bumblebee activities for adults and kids - see you there from 10.30am!
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18 Jul 2023
Just a reminder of the Shrill carder bee day we are hosting with the RSPB at @RSPBNewport this Saturday (22nd). A day full of fun bumblebee activities for adults and kids - see you there from 10.30am!
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14 Jul 2023
Thistle do nicely! This #ForageFriday we're focussing on all the thistles, like this Creeping Thistle, that are adding a splash of purple to grasslands and verges. They're often busy with #bumblebees in July and Shrills have previously been recorded on thistles 🐝#ShrillCarderBee
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