This common bumblebee, the Red tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) [1] is common the Netherlands and a yearly returning, regular visitor of the garden, albeit in small numbers of one or some specimen at a time.
Here it is foraging on Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus).
Literature
1 Gokcezade, J. F., Gereben-Krenn, B. A., Neumayer, J., & Krenn, H. W., 2010. Feldbestimmungsschlüssel für die Hummeln Österreichs, Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Biologiezentrum/Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen.
