🐝 Bumblebees struggle with UK heat, WWF advises gardeners to leave water trays and shade flowers for assistance.

🐝 Bumblebees, vital pollinators, struggle with rising UK temperatures, leading the World Wildlife Foundation to advise gardeners to leave water trays in gardens over weekends. To help, gardeners should also plant flowers in shaded areas and provide shallow water trays with pebbles, branches or bark for bees to rest on. Bumblebees' numbers are declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, pollution, and climate change.

August 03, 2024
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