Bombus lapidarius (Red tailed bumblebee)♀︎

- Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower) -

Last update: 5 February 2021


Common

OBSERVATION:
2019-V-24


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).

Red tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) on Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

References

1 GOKCEZADE, J. F., et al. Feldbestimmungsschlüssel für die Hummeln Österreichs, Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Hymenoptera, Apidae).

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