Rare bumblebee to get boost from bilberries in cages
(World News UK)

One of the UK´s rarest bumblebees is being given a boost - by putting the flowers it feeds on in cages. Conservationists and volunteers have planted 1,000 bilberry plants inside specially-designed metal cages that will protect them from grazing so they can provide food for the bilberry bumblebee in its Peak District stronghold. The bilberries, which flower in the spring and early summer before heather and other moorland plants, are a vital food source for the...