Rare bumblebee seen for first time in 50 years
"We are both like, 'is that a ruderal bumblebee'," he said. "I've done a lot of rare species mapping in Wales and so I knew [ruderals] were definitely not here."
Mr Harris and Dr Gammans spent the next day surveying a three-mile road between his home and the village of Brechfa. "It says a lot about the farmers here, farming low intensity, low stocking density which allows wildflowers to grow," he added.The rare bumblebee was spotted on a foxglove just metres from a bee conservationist's homethe ruderal is difficult to identify, which could be why it is "largely unrecorded in Wales".
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust said it hoped to develop a project across Carmarthenshire and potentially other parts of Wales to help protect the rare bumblebee.
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