Under threat Bumblebees, including those clinging on in the Western Isles will be boosted by the sales of striped socks, which have so far raised £5,000.
The money will be used to help protect these, now, rare insects.
The Stirling University-based Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) is among charities being supported by an internet shopping website’s appeal.
“Shrill carder bees”
Profits from the sales of footwear modelled on MandMDirect.com’s site by actress Tamsin Egerton is going to the trust.
Bumblebees under threat include the great yellow found in the Highlands.
Once widespread, its numbers declined in the face of intensive farming and has clung to survival on Orkney and the Western Isles.
It is hoped the scheme to enhance the wildflower habitat near Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, will help to establish a colony of shrill carder bees.
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