19 May 2014 Last updated at 09:53
A new campaign has been launched in Caithness to help one of the UK's rarest bumblebees.
The great yellow clings to survival on the far north coast, Orkney and the Western Isles.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) has opened a temporary shop in Thurso to promote efforts to save the bee.
BCT's Katy Malone said: "Bumblebees in general are brilliant creatures. People can really engage with them. They are like little fuzzy teddy bears."
Once widespread, numbers of great yellows declined in the face of intensive farming.
The far north Highlands are home to the last mainland population.
In 2010, plants favoured by the rare bumblebee were sown at 11 farms in Caithness in an effort to boost its numbers.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment
You only need to enter your comment once! Comments will appear once they have been moderated. This is so as to stop the would-be comedian who has been spamming the comments here with inane and often offensive remarks. You know who you are!