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Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 68 No. 68 |

Shrill Carder-Bumble bee
Shrill Carder-Bumble bee (Bombus sylvarum) – species of genus “Bumble Bees“

Bombus sylvarum, the shrill carder bee or knapweed carder-bee, is a species of bumblebee with a wide distribution across Europe, east to the Ural Mountains, and north to Great Britain, Ireland, and southern Scandinavia.

Ancestry Graph

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„Death in the garden“ Otto, the earwig, experiences an environment that is becoming increasingly dangerous due to the use of neonicotinoids and confronts the deadly consequences of these insecticides for himself and other insects.

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Death in the garden

„Shrill Carder-Bumble bee“ also appeared in the following editions of Arthropods Daily