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Common Carder Bee

Bombus pascuorum

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Apidae

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 that species in northern Britain. Description The thorax of the common carder bee is either yellowish or reddish-brown in color.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 148,517Germany · 77,957United Kingdom · 38,504France · 4,660Switzerland · 2,956Italy · 1,755Belgium · 1,102Spain · 904Luxembourg · 681