I am at the Game Fair (Fri and Sat).
I’m pretty sure this will provide bloggable material for a while!
But while I am away – why not buy this excellent book which is a fully updated and enlarged edition of an earlier work? Oliver Prys-Jones and Sarah Corbet are old friends and colleagues from Cambridge and they asked me to write the foreword to their book. I was glad to do so as it really is the book on bumblebees that you need whether you are an expert or a novice – I am a novice. But I have been running after bumblebees in the back garden with this book in my hand in recent days!
This book is published as part of a revitalised Naturalists’ Handbook series by Pelagic Publishing and readers of this blog can avail themselves of a 20% discount by entering the voucher code MABB20 as you put this book in your shopping basket here.
In case you are wondering – I don’t get a penny out of it.
I would probably never have got into birds had I not had a copy of Peterson, Mountford and Hollom’s field guide. Knowing what you are looking at is a good start to developing an interest and an understanding of wildlife. I suppose it doesn’t have to be like that but I’d be surprised if anyone got very interested in any wildlife group without being able to tell one from the other and being able to put a name to them.
This guide allows you to do that for the 24 British bumblebees but also tells you much more about them than a simple field guide would, so it really is a good introduction to the buzzing world of bumblebees.
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Having had a great start to the year our population has suddenly crashed. The only thing I can think of up here is that many nests have been washed out. A Buddleia Globia is usually covered with them at this time of the year but sadly only true flies seem to be on it this year not even Hover Flies.