Bumbles on Blooms comes to a close

A huge thank you to everyone who shared their photos of bumblebees on flowers as part of our RHS Bumbles on Blooms project. We received over 1,500 observations!! Our next step is to chew over the data, check the plant names and bumblebee identifications. Later this summer we'll post an update to let everyone know our results.

A reminder to upload any photos of bumblebees on flowers that you took between 12 Feb and 31 May which are sat on your camera or phone as we can still include those in the project. However, we will close the project to new observations on Friday 14 June so do please get your photos in to us before then.

Although our project is now closed do keep uploading your sightings to iNaturalist to help the naturalist community build up a big picture of the best flowers for our bees. And here's some inspiration for planting a bee-friendly garden this summer - https://www.rhs.org.uk/wildlife/plants-for-bees

Helen, on behalf of the RHS Bumbles on Blooms team

Posted on June 3, 2024 01:05 PM by helenbostock