The Cumbria Bumblebee Atlas project
Aiming to reveal where Bumblebees are in the whole of Cumbria
During the spring and summer 2022, Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Get Cumbria Buzzing! recorded as many Bumblebees and other pollinators as part of its Bumblebee Atlas Project in partnership with the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC).
We asked the communities of Cumbria to join us in the search for Bumblebees. To help, we offered online and in the field bumblebee identification training sessions, and recording days across the whole of the north & north west of Cumbria.
Download the Cumbria Bumblebee Atlas - An Atlas and Conservation guide (PDF)
Importantly, Bumblebees are recognized as significant indicators of the overall state of pollinators in the UK.
The Bee Atlas project
Despite there being an amazing number of species of pollinators in Cumbria, a lot of them require in-depth knowledge and experience. By focusing on Bumblebees, which are more easily recorded in the field, we created an Atlas detailing the distribution, range, and species history of all of the Bumblebee species found in Cumbria
This Atlas includes the records already held by the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre, and the records collected and submitted this year. Importantly, Bumblebees are recognized as significant indicators of the overall state of pollinators in the UK.