Hi

Members of the line may not be aware that the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
in the UK- a mover in this re-introduction-was founded by, among others,
Profesor Dave Goulson, who recently featured on this line as a person
talking up bee problems.

On the other hand, I wonder about spending all this resource and effort in
re-introducing an extinct species, when some other species of bumblebee in
the UK continue to decline.

Finally, on this theme, the bumblebee bombus hypnorum, or tree bumblebee,
and a long term European resident has been a huge success story in the UK.
 First reported in Southern England in 2001, it has now become widely
established across the full N-S extent of England, and on into Scotland.
 This successful species seems seldom to be mentioned when bee declines are
being debated.

Regards

Mike Rowbottom
Harrogate
UK


On 24 May 2014 02:56, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >this UK bumblebee has been successfully reintroduced
>
> Thanks for that good news, Jim!
>
>

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