And last but not least, this one I rescued from a quite deep box that she’d fallen into and was too tired to get back out again. She was very grateful for the food…picking them up with a flower the best thing to do if you find a bee that needs help, sugar water is only good if you can’t do that.

This is a male garden bumblebee - males have an extra bit of yellow on thier heads in the b&y/o species, and you can tell gardens from the others are they have a band around their ‘waist’

This is a very rare bee in the UK, but is in abundance at Newport Wetlands; the shrill carder bee. You can hear why when she flies away!

Next up is my personal favourite, the common carder bumblebee! This clip doesn’t show the colours very well but it does show a bit of interesting behaviour - some seem to ward you off like this, while others will bump into you or very slowly fly around you, as if trying to understand what you are!

This dizzy queen 😭 She is a white-tailed and as you can see from the way she flies away at the end, she’s actually a fairy

This one is a buff-tailed, they are the biggest and one of the earliest to rise. They have pretty short tongues unlike…

This is what I’m really here to see though