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The brown-banded carder bee population has declined due to habitat loss as it requires open flower-rich grasslands where wildflowers thrive, says charity Buglife.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2022

Other rare insects that benefitted from the restoration project were the rugged oil beetle, rock-rose pot beetle, shrill carder bumblebee, downland villa and spotted beeflies.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2022

Among the bees whose range has shrunk are the formerly widespread red-shanked carder bee, whose extent fell by 42%, and the large shaggy bee, whose range fell 53%.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2019

All that did was move Odessa’s carder scene underground.

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 13, 2014

The lady said to her, "Go and say to yon carder, 'My mistress wishes thee; come at night.'"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir