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Bombus pascuorum

Common carder bumble bee

Habitus (CC BY-SA 3.0) Sputniktilt

Short Description

The common carder bee is beige to orange. The base of the wings is covered with grey-black hairs. However, the colouration is variable and there are also animals with a reddish brown or greyish black body.

Features

Common carder bumble bee

Bombus pascuorum

  • black hairy wing base

Similar species

Brown-banded carder bee

Bombus humilis
It can only be reliably distinguished by an examination with a microscope.

Large carder bee

Bombus muscorum
It has no black hairs at the base of the wings. It is longer and more densely hairy.
Nest ohne obere Wachs-Abdeckung (CC BY-SA 3.0) Panoramedia

In the city

The common carder bee is adaptable and colonises many habitats, e.g. meadows, gardens, ditches, roadsides and fieldsides, parks and forests. It is very common. It builds its nests both above and below ground. Preferred sites include old mice nests, bird nests and nest boxes.

Fun Facts

  • It flies from March to October.

  • Bumblebees can sting, but they are very peaceful and rather shy.

  • Bombus campestris is the parasite of the common carder bee. It prefers to lay its eggs in the nests of the field bumblebee so that they can be fed by its workers.

  • They make an important contribution to the pollination of numerous flowers.

  • Endangerment level Germany: not endangered
Drone (CC BY-SA 3.0) Sffubs

Sources

Habitus, Sputniktilt, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombus_pascuorum_Zurich_lateral.jpg

Nest ohne obere Wachs-Abdeckung, Panoramedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apoidea.jpg

Drone, Sffubs, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Bumblebee_heuchera.jpg

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