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Plight of the bumblebee: how Queen Mary helped Britain’s native pollinators
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
A foreign subspecies of bumblebee, imported as part of a billion-dollar global trade in pollinators, was found by researchers at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences to pose a risk to the UK’s native species Bombus terrestris audax. As a result, the use of non-native pollinators is now licensed in the UK, with fines and custodial sentences levied against their uncontrolled use.