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Common Carder-bee
Bombus pascuorum
50.8648, 4.68897
Field Notes
Description:
Is a species of bumblebee belonging to the family Apidae subfamily Apinae tribus Bombini.
The thorax is yellowish or reddish-brown. The first 4 abdominal segments have grayish hair, while the fifth and sixth tergite hairs are yellowish or reddish brown. However the species is quite variable in color.
Young Queens and drones can be found from mid-August to late October.
Habitat:
They are present in most of Europe in a wide variety of habitats such as meadows, pastures, waste ground, ditches and embankments, road, field margins, as well as gardens and parks in urban areas and forests and forest edges.
This one was seen in our botanical garden in Heverlee, KU Leuven.
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Bombus pascuorum
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PublishedAugust 15, 2013
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