Deeside Nature Festival: Braemar Bumblebee Safari (Morrone)

Skills for Bees: Scotland is a Bumblebee Conservation Trust project which aims to promote bumblebee surveying and monitoring in the Cairngorms National Park.Through online workshops, in-person field surveys and continuing support for volunteers, Skills for Bees: Scotland will upskill people living in, working in and generally enjoying the Cairngorms National Park to look out for and look after bumblebees

Skills for Bees: Scotland (BBCT)

Learn more about the wonderful world of bumblebees on a guided ‘Walk & Talk’ as we search for the scarce Blaeberry bumblebee.

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Targeted Rare Species Surveys

Extension habitat association & mapping work has helped us to identifY 10km squares across the Cairngorms National Park, to prioritise our surveys for rare species. We will be holding targeted survey days for Bombus monticola, B. soroeensis & B.  muscorum

Part of a series of wildlife events for Deeside Nature Festival 2025.Did you know that we have 20 different species of bumblebee in Scotland?Join Annie Ives from Bumblebee Conservation Trust to learn more about the wonderful world of bumblebees on this guided ‘Walk &amp; Talk’ on Sunday 25th May.We will explore the tracks and trails around Morrone Birkwood to see how many different species of bumblebee we can find, and hopefully spot the elusive Blaeberry bumblebee (Bombus monticola). This site has been selected as a priority to survey for this conservation-priority bumblebee - a beautiful and distinctive scarce treasure that calls the Cairngorms home. Please be aware that at this event, we may be catching bumblebees to take a closer look for identification purposes. This event is dependent on bumblebee-friendly weather, so could be cancelled or rearranged at short notice.

Deeside Nature Festival: Braemar Bumblebee Safari (Morrone)

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