Tuesday 31 May 2022


 Pollinators part four. Hmm, is this the Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus vestalis) or a female Buff-Tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)? Cuckoo species take over the nests of other bumblebees and let them do the work of rearing their young. Indeed B. vestalis moves in on the nest of B. terrestris