Babbity Bumble News Today

“The Secret Lives of Wild Bees” is the subject of a free webinar with Dr. Nick Dorian, an ecologist, educator and naturalist. The talk, presented by West Newbury Wild and Native and Essex County Greenbelt, discusses the 4,000 species of bees that inhabit North America. Dorian examines their varied lifestyles, habitat needs and intricate relationships […]

Country Life Trending: Scientists only discovered the humble pollinators secret in 2005, says Martin Fone. A spell of late-winter sunshine encouraged several bumblebees to explore the delights of the flowering heathers and crocuses in our borders. More disconcertingly, one of their number took such a liking to a garden chair that it lay there for twenty-four hours, quivering, but showing little inclination to buzz off. My own Babbity Bumble had allowed its body temperature to drop below ...