Wednesday 1st July may have been the hottest day of the year for Sheffield but this didn’t stop Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust and the Community Science team from setting up a new bumblebee transect at Blacka Moor nature reserve.
We spent an enjoyable morning walking the new transect route
to assess its suitability and record the habitats present along the way. The
good mix of heathland and woodland habitats complete with the hot sunny weather
meant the bumblebees were out in force. We recorded over 40 sightings in around
1km with a bilberry bumblebee, one of the target species, spotted in the last
section.
The Blacka Moor bumblebee transect is ready to go and waiting
for more community science volunteers to discover and survey. If you are
interested in helping survey this transect please contact Community Science moorcitizens@peakdistrict.gov.uk
or Sheffield Wildlife Trust nature.reserves@wildsheffield.com
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