Short haired bumblebee progress
13th February 2010, SaturdayThe short haired bumblebee project aims to reintroduce this extinct bumblebee to the RX area from English stock exported to New Zealand over 100 years ago. One of the hurdles to be overcome is to get a stock of captive reared queens for importing back here. We did not know if this would be easy to do or not, however Nikki Gammans has been over in New Zealand catching wild queens for a captive rearing project. This is starting to produce the goods, well workers and males so far anyway. Read about progress in Nikki’s blog.