Red-tailed bumblebee ( Bombus lapidarius )

As I said yesterday during June I will be attempting to blip (or put as an extra) something wild.  Visiting Kanyl I wandered round looking for weeds/wildflowers to blip.  He spotted a Bumblebee enjoying his Chive flowers.  I find pollinators very difficult to get a good shot of but this one obliged.  If anyone is wondering the two bright lumps to each side of the bee are "pollen baskets" which it uses to collect pollen to take back as a food for the colony.  What flower has such bright pollen I don't know, but as the baskets are full there must be a lot about.

I can also use this as a sighting for "Get Cumbria Buzzing".  This is another Wildlife Trust initiative, the population of Cumbria's bees butterflies, and moths, indeed the UK's has fallen by over the last 50 years.  Pollinators are so essential to the world's food supplies so we must do what we can.  The project revolves round the coast road from south of Whitehaven up to Carlisle and beyond, also the V66 from the m^ to the coast.  Various schemes are being used, changes in mowing/maintenance of road verges, wild flowers etc. planting