What to do if bumblebees have a nest where it's inconvenient
What you will learn here
- What to do about bumblebees that have moved in and you're worried about them
- What can be done about a bumblebee nest that is in danger and needs to be saved?
- Where to get support in both cases
- What is Bumblebee Rapid Response – a service that saves bumblebee nests
Last dateupdated: 29/05/2022
Introduction
In this section, you'll find help if you feel threatened by bumblebees, or conversely, if you find a bumblebee nest in danger and want to help them.
Each of you can get involved in helping or pass on a message about opportunities to help.
Thank you for helping nature!
Bumblebees PLUS and the actual bumblebees
Bumblebees in your hands
Photo A. Ungerová (03/2020)
Bumblebees that „annoy and threaten“
We haven't yet met anyone who dislikes bumblebees. Likewise, bumblebees don't pose a threat to anyone.
Bumblebees are peaceful little bears, You have to threaten them directly or their nest for them to start defending themselves..
However, sometimes bumblebees are really a nuisance because from our perspective as humans, it settles unhappily, And people feel that bumblebees are threatened.
This happens for example when bumblebees dwell in a place where people fear for their offspring. Sometimes it feels Allergic people at risk, because being stung by a bee could have serious consequences for them.
The vast majority of bumblebee species in the Czech Republic are friendly and there is no need to be afraid of them.
If you have found yourself in this situation, We offer you this solution,
Bumblebees in danger
Sometimes bumblebees unluckily set up home in a way that puts themselves in real danger.
It could be theirs a nest that you unintentionally destroy.
It could be, for example a nest in the compost you are currently handling. Sometimes Bumblebees nest in the way, which you are using. You can also Discovering a nest during house renovations, in a shed, or in a meadow while making hay etc.
It can also be a nest that the dog dug up.
In all these cases, a bumblebee nest in danger and needs human help.
If you have found yourself in this situation, We offer you this solution
Bumblebee Rapid Response Unit
This is what this part of our website is all about, and our/your selfless service, the Bumblebee Rapid Response Team, which will provide you with Instructions that will benefit you and bumblebees.
Each of you who is prepared and determined can become a member of this party saving endangered bumblebees!
You can find out more about the Bumblebee Rapid Response Unit and its membership requirements HERE (under preparation).
Contact details for help can be found HERE
Bumblebee Rapid Response in action
Photo A. Ungerová (May 2019)
Bumblebee Rapid Response in action
Photo A. Ungerová (May 2019)
Patches with the logo for bumblebee nest rescuers are waiting for you too...
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Cooperation between the Fire and Rescue Service and Čmeláci PLUS
In 2019, we approached the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic (HZS ČR) and subsequently presented Bumblebees PLUS and bumblebee rescue at a meeting of dispatchers from the HZS South Moravian Region Emergency Line.
If someone turns to na HZS Control Room to address the request Bumblebee problem, the control room will inform us and we We will offer a nest for rescue with the Bumblebee Fast Response Team
The presentation is available after edits have been made HERE
Challenge
If you don't want to, or can't, become a candidate for saving a bumblebee nest, you can help in other ways too.
Please pass on the message about the possibility of saving the bumblebee nest. If more people learn about the Bumblebee Rapid Response Squad, our reach will be greater, and therefore more people will offer endangered bumblebee nests for rescue.
Pass on the information about the website www.cmelaciplus.cz or directly a link to pages dedicated to bumblebee conservation: https://www.cmelaciplus.cz/sos-cmelaci-hnizdo-na-nevhodnem-miste/
You can also use our information leaflet, which is available.
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