Camera phone bumblebee watch

Scotland's Bumblebee Conservation Trust, in what is considered a first, will invite the public to send in bee sightings so it can build up a map of where its 25 species are.

Dave Goulson, of the trust, said people would get help identifying the different species.

He said: "People with digital cameras or a camera on their mobile phones can send us pictures of the bumblebees in their garden and we will send them back an identification. If people send us the date and a postcode of where the bumblebee was seen then we will be able put together a national map."

Related - Cellphones identify birds The Swiss Association for the Protection of Birds has launched a short code enabling mobile uses to connect to a WAP site, so that bird lovers can identify a birds' song by browsing through a database.

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