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  • Published: 1 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473578364
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Gardening for Bumblebees

A Practical Guide to Creating A Paradise for Pollinators




From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Sting In The Tale comes this practical guide to creating a paradise for pollinators

'Go on, have a flutter! Take a few tips from the new book by biologist Dave Goulson and it's a safe bet that beautiful butterflies will start gathering in your garden'
Daily Mail


From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Sting In The Tale comes this practical guide to creating a paradise for pollinators.

There are twenty six different species of bumblebees to be found in the UK, of around 250 species worldwide. Bumblebees are among the most important of our insects; these superb pollinators ensure that wildflowers set seed and reappear each year, and that our vegetable and fruit crops give us bountiful harvests. With the decline in the populations of our wild bees, these beloved creatures need looking after more than ever.

Gardening for Bumblebees shows you how you can provide a refuge for bumblebees to feed, breed and thrive. No matter how large or small your space is, Dave Goulson shows you how you can make a pollinator-friendly haven. In this book you will learn the best trees, shrubs and flowers for pollinators, how to create the perfect nest and breeding site, and the best ways to control pests. Gardening For Bumblebees will encourage and inspire gardeners and allotmenters alike to make their patch more bee friendly.

Praise for Dave Goulson

'Ideal for filling the garden with a happy hum'
Tiffany Daneff, Country Life

'Goulson reminds himself that he 'began studying bumblebees not because they are important pollinators but because they are fascinating, because they behave in interesting and mysterious ways, and because they are rather loveable'
Hannah Rosefield, Literary Review

  • Published: 1 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473578364
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Dave Goulson

Dave Goulson studied biology at Oxford University and is now Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex. He has spent the last twenty years studying bumblebees, and has published over 250 scientific articles on their biology. He founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, A Sting in the Tale, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, A Buzz in the Meadow and Bee Quest.

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Praise for Gardening for Bumblebees

Ideal for filling the garden with a happy hum

Tiffany Daneff, Country Life

Go on, have a flutter! Take a few tips from the new book by biologist Dave Goulson and it's a safe bet that beautiful butterflies will start gathering in your garden

Daily Mail

[Goulson's] fascination with bumblebees and other pollinators is infectious... This book might open your eyes - and gardens - to the myriad mini-wonders that too often go unnoticed

Catherine Smalley, Gardens Illustrated

Dave Goulson's beautifully presented and illustrated Gardening for Bumblebees...will tell you how to save the world. Literally. One penstemon at a time

Brian Morton, Tablet