Episode 264: Looking out for Bumblebees

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode where my guest is Gill Perkins, CEO of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. We talk about bumblebee populations and habitats, what we can do to encourage and care for bumblebees in our gardens and about the role of bumblebees in tomato pollination, which came as a complete surprise to me! Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Fuchsia Gall Mite What We Talk About  Bumblebee concerns Bumblebee identification Honeybees and beekeeping Encouraging and caring for bumblebees Tomato pollination Links Bumblebee Conservation Trust Bee the Change Managed Honeybees lbka.org Article on beekeeping Honeybees and other wildlife Trouble with beekeeping boom Other episodes if you liked this one: Urban Bees with Mark Patterson Pollinators with Professor Jeff Ollerton Patreon