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Image slideshow: New research to investigate pollinators decline - 22 June 2010
CEH news story: New projects to address decline of bees and other insect pollinators
- Insects pollinate around a third of the agricultural crops grown globally.
The nine projects funded by the Insect Pollinator Initiative will look at different aspects of the decline of insect pollinators.
Photo of Bombus pascuorum by Dr Claire Carvell of CEH who is leading one of the projects.
- The total loss of insect pollinators could cost up to £440M per year in the UK (about 13% of the UK’s income from farming). Wild bees are an especially important crop pollinator.
Photo: Ian Draycott 
- British bee species comprise the honeybee, about 20 bumblebee species and many solitary bee species.
Photo: Paulette Burns 
- The projects in the Insect Pollinators Initiative
will ask questions about the decline of honeybees, wild bees and other pollinating insects over recent years.
Photo: Shutterstock
- Claire Carvell's project is entitled "Investigating the impact of habitat structure on queen and worker bumblebees in the field".
She is collaborating with scientists from the University of East Anglia and the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London.
Photo of Bombus terrestris by Ian Draycott
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