Shropshire Invertebrate Group

 

The Shropshire Invertebrates Group (SIG) organises regular informal indoor meetings and monthly field meetings through the spring, summer and autumn to increase knowledge of the varied and under-recorded invertebrate species of Shropshire.

For more details of SIG events and membership (for which there is currently no fee) please visit the Shropshire Invertebrates Group website

For more details of Shropshire Invertebrate Group activities please visit their website or download the 2010 events program.

 

Invertebrate Groups on Natural Shropshire

Bombus hypnorum in Shropshire.

Photograph of bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum

The bumblebee Bombus hypnorum was first found in the UK in Hampshire in 2001. Since then it has rapidly spread, with a first record for Shropshire, from near Bridgnorth on the 5th June 2008.

The worker in the photograph had a full pollen load when caught,  so she's from an active nest. She was nectaring on Comfrey - Symphytum species.

Photo © Nigel Jones 

 

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