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Three bumblebee workers (Bombus terrestris) prepare to leave their nest box.

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.

Lars Chittika

Professor Lars Chittka

Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology

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5th in the UK

for quality of research outputs (REF 2014)

£105minvested

in facilities in the last five years

£137m

annual research income