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A ruderal bumblebee queen was spotted not far from the Brechfa home of a conservationist who said he "could not believe his eyes".

Steyerl describes these sci-fi flora as “ruderal” – a term for plants that colonise disturbed lands, such as the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

The splintered, the fissile, the ruderal: these are the Ness's textures.

Engelmann and I have been noting the species truly indigenous here which, becoming ruderal or campestral, are increasing in the number of individuals instead of diminishing as the country becomes more settled and forests removed.

The ruderal's last UK strongholds are in south Kent and East Sussex, but a population has now been found in Wales.