Bumblebees have fascinated me since I was a child, and I’ve been studying them for 30 years, now as a professor of biology. They’re big, furry and beautiful, and their buzzing, lazy flight is the perfect soundtrack to a summer’s day.
There are 26 species in the UK and it’s easy to spot six or seven in your garden or local park, provided there are flowers to attract them. You can see huge queens in early spring, followed by their smaller workers, and then males with their fluffy yellow faces idling about on flowers in high summer.
Bumblebees are the most obvious visitors – they’re large, and many have yellow stripes. Honey bees are common too – these slim, brownish bees are the ones kept in hives. There are also leafcutter bees, sweat bees and many more – about 270 species in the UK.
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A rendering of the new Square Peg in Vernon. Square Peg is expanding with seven new restaurants planned for Connecticut. (Jay Maffe/Square Peg)
VERNON, CT A Glastonbury-based restaurant that combines pizza, gourmet food and an arcade is well on its way toward expanding its culinary empire that will begin in Vernon and Enfield and extend through its current location to Orange in partnerships with several of the new and popular axe-throwing venues.
When all is said and done, Square Peg Pizza will have seven new restaurants in Connecticut by next year.
A plan that would extend Square Peg s reach from the north central state border to the New Haven suburbs with eight locations seemed like it could be overly ambitious at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic when owner Jay Maffe first began getting serious.
Argyllshire Advertiser
Updated: 05/05/21, 3:37 pm
Celebrating a successful project, complete with new shop signs. From left: Square Peg owner Jilly Wilson, Councillor Alastair Redman, Greig MacLeod, Denise Brolly of the Sweetie Jar, contractor Donald MacDonald, Sarah Brolly of West Coast Homes and Love Dove Studio proprietor Gill Stewart.
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Aussie VCs must match ârockstarâ US funds or risk missing deals
It took a US company to make the two largest investments in Australian venture capital history. Itâs time for local VCs to fight back.
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When I first read about Brisbane startup Octopus Deployâs $223 million capital raising from Insight Venture Partners, my emotions were humility and horror. So much for my deep connection to Aussie tech â Iâd never even heard of them.
I was only slightly consoled to discover that many others were similarly humbled.
Octopus Deployâs Paul and Sonia Stovell preferred the track record and US network of Insight Partners over Aussie VC funds that would have liked to invest in them.Â