21st July 2009

One of the more bizarre sightings of the year!  Teresa, a volunteer in Caithness who has been involved with the Species Action Framework project, was driving to work and found that the car contained not just her and the dog, but a bumblebee.  Stopping the car, she was amazed to find it was a Great Yellow Bumblebee!  It had managed to find its way into the car somewhere between Thurso and Reay, which had a good chance of being the westernmost Great Yellow Bumblebee recorded in Caithness.  No photo, but Teresa had been with a group planting flowers at Murkle under an ActionEarth project a few weeks earlier, when a queen Great Yellow Bumblebee was seen at Rosa rugosa.