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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 ...
Radoszkowski, 1862. The range of Bombus vosnesenskii. Bombus vosnesenskii, the yellow-faced bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee native to the west coast of North America, where it is distributed from British Columbia to Baja California. It is the most abundant species of bee in this range, and can be found in both urban and agricultural areas.
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils. They are found primarily in higher altitudes or latitudes in the ...
Bilberry Bumblebee, in sample tube for identification purposes. B. monticola is found in most mountainous areas of Europe, as northern Scandinavia (mostly Norway and northern Sweden ; the distribution in Finland is rather patchy, and confined to the area along the Norwegian border), the Alps , the Cantabrian Mountains , the Pyrenees , the ...
Distribution and population. Bombus occidentalis was once one of the most common bee species in the North West America. [4] They have been found from the Mediterranean California all the way up to the Tundra regions of Alaska, making them one of the bees with the widest range geographic range. [4]
Bombus morio is a bumble bee, and thus shares certain features with other bumble bee species. They have three main body parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. The difference between female and male genders can be distinguished by the number of thorax segments.
Bombus pratorum. (Linnaeus, 1761) The early bumblebee or early-nesting bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) is a small bumblebee with a wide distribution in most of Europe and parts of Asia. It is very commonly found in the UK and emerges to begin its colony cycle as soon as February which is earlier than most other species, hence its common name. [1]
Bombus ternarius, commonly known as the orange-belted bumblebee or tricolored bumblebee, [2] is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee. It is a ground-nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season, common throughout the northeastern United States and much of Canada . [ 3 ]