(7 Nov 2022) UK BEES
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK — 17 August 2022
1. Various of drawer full of pinned bumblebees
2. Various of Dr. Gavin Broad, principal curator in charge of insects, Natural History Museum, walking in insect collection room, opening cupboard, taking a drawer of pinned bumblebees out and bringing it to a lab room
3. Various of Broad and Aoife Cantwell-Jones, PhD research student at Imperial College London, joint first author of the study, looking at bumblebees
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Aoife Cantwell-Jones, PhD research student at Imperial College London, joint first author of the study:"It seems like on years that are generally hotter and a bit wetter, we found that the wings are more different on the same bee. So this kind of could be an indicator that bees maybe had a bit more stress in those years that were hotter and wetter."
5. Various of Broad and Cantwell-Jones, looking at bumblebees
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Aoife Cantwell-Jones, PhD research student at Imperial College London, joint first author of the study:"We have to be careful not to extrapolate too much because, of course, there could have been other things that were contributing to this difference in shape. But given climate change and given that we're predicted to have a lot more hot weather, I think we could be a bit worried about how bees are doing in the future."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK — 17 August 2022
7. Various of Broad walking up to bumblebee collection
8. Close of Broad taking a bumblebee drawer out
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Gavin Broad, principal curator in charge of insects, Natural History Museum:"They have an exoskeleton, so you can put a pin through a bee and if nothing much changes, it will sit there happily in the same state for for hundreds of years. Sometimes you might want to arrange the specimen when you are setting it so that the wings are nicely outstretched, which has helped a lot with this particular research study. But a lot of the time they're just pinned and put in the collection and that's that."
10. Various of Dr Richard J. Gill, senior lecturer, Imperial College London, and principal investigator of the bumblebee research project, coming into the lab room and talking with Broad and Cantwell-Jones, Gill pointing at bumblebees
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard J. Gill, senior lecturer, Imperial College London, and principal investigator of the bumblebee research project:"So previously we could extract some DNA from those bees, but those kind of methods only extracted very, very small fragments and only partial parts of the genome. But these new techniques — we're looking at basically extracting at least 40, 50% of that genome. That provides a bigger picture because there's lots of what we call markers across the genome that we can use to understand whether diversity is changed or not."
12. Various of Broad taking a top-down photo of a bumblebee in the same way the digitisation team of the museum did for the study
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Gavin Broad, principal curator in charge of insects, Natural History Museum:"This is essentially sort of an irreplaceable time machine, a time capsule. These specimens are collected at certain point in time. And there's never a record of bees that were flying around 50 years ago, 60 years ago. These data are in museum collections and pretty much nowhere else."
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14. Various of bumble bees flying around flowers
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This box contains dozens of old bumblebees.
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