Core publications
Reports and other documents
Bombus Review
Bombus Review is our scientific e-newsletter which keeps our members up to date with the latest news from the world of bumblebee and pollinator research. If you are a member you can sign up to receive the newsletter direct to your inbox and access the latest editions via the member portal.
Scientific research featuring the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Brown, M.J.F., Sainsbury, A.W., Vaughan-Higgins, R.J., Measures, G.H., Jones, C.M., Gammans, N. (2017). Bringing back a healthy buzz? Invertebrate parasites and reintroductions: a case study in bumblebees. Ecohealth 14 (supplement 1), pp. 74-83.
Comont, R.F., & Ashbrook, K. (2017). Harmonia axyridis as a flagship species: evaluating promotional approaches for citizen-science biological recording. Biocontrol 62 (3), PP. 309-318.
Falk S, Foster G, Comont R, Conroy J, Bostock H, Salisbury A, et al. (2019) Evaluating the ability of citizen scientists to identify bumblebee (Bombus) species. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218614. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218614
Matechou, E., Freeman, S.N., Comont, R. (2018). Caste-Specific Demography and Phenology in Bumblebees: Modelling BeeWalk Data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 23 (4), PP. 427-445.
Siddharthan, A., Lambin, C., Robinson, A., Sharma, N., Comont, R., O'Mahony, E., Mellish, C. & Van Der Wal, R. (2015). Crowdsourcing without a crowd: Reliable online species identification using Bayesian models to minimize crowd size. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems & Technology 7 (4), article 45.
Reference books
Staff recommend the following books for people who are keen to learn more. These books are available via Amazon.
- Bumblebees - an introduction - By Dr Nikki Gammans, Dr Richard Comont, S.C Morgan and Gill Perkins (2018)
- A field guide to the bees of Great Britain and Ireland, by Steven Falk & Richard Lewington (2015)
- Bumblebees (RSPB Spotlight series), by Richard Comont (2017)
- A Sting in the Tale, by Dave Goulson (2013)
- Plants for bees - A guide to the plants that benefit the bees of the British Isles, by W.D.J. Kirk and F.N. Howes (2013)
Pollinator strategies
National Pollinator Strategy for England
Action Plan for Pollinators in Wales
All-Ireland Pollinator Strategy
Pollinator Strategy for Scotland
Governance documents
If you are looking for copies of our governance documents, you can access them via our How we are run page.