Bumble bees as big as `flying mice’ have been spotted by nature lovers across the country, it has been claimed.
But there is no need to worry, experts say, because they are probably not as large as some spotters have made them out to be.
`All the queen bees have come out with the fabulous weather and they’re very obvious as they fly low looking for food and a site to nest,’ said Natural History Museum entomologist Stuart Hine.
`They’re not bigger than they have been before – it’s very much to do with human observation.’
Only the far larger queen bees and wasps hibernate to survive the winter, with the smaller workers and males dying in the autumn, he said.
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