Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 1069: Common Carder Bumble Bee

Common Carder Bumble Bee
Arthropods Daily · No. 1069 Common Carder Bumble BeeBombus pascuorum
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Common Carder Bumble Bee
Common Carder Bumble Bee (Bombus pascuorum) – species of genus “Bumble Bees“

Bombus pascuorum, the common carder bee, is a species of bumblebee present in most of Europe in a wide variety of habitats such as meadows, pastures, waste ground, ditches and embankments, roads, and field margins, as well as gardens and parks in urban areas and forests and forest edges. It is similar in appearance to Bombus muscorum, and is replacing the species in Northern Britain....

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