Busy with bee plans.A BUMBLEBEE bumblebee: see bee. bumblebee Any member of two genera constituting the insect tribe Bombini (family Apidae, order Hymenoptera), found almost worldwide but most common in temperate climates. Bumblebees are robust and hairy, average about 0. which died out in the UK but survived in New Zealand is being brought home. Small populations of the short-haired bumblebee sprang up in the country's South Island after being transported there in the late 19th century to pollinate pol·li·nate also pol·len·ate tr.v. pol·li·nat·ed also pol·len·at·ed, pol·li·nat·ing also pol·len·at·ing, pol·li·nates also pol·len·ates To transfer pollen from an anther to the stigma of (a flower). crops of red clover. It became extinct in Britain in 2000 but now scientists plan to set up a breeding programme. The bees will be released on a bird reserve in Dungeness, Kent - the last place it was seen - next year. Poul Christensen, of Natural England, said: "Bumblebees are suffering unprecedented international declines." |
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