Bombus lapidarius (Red tailed bumblebee)♀︎

Hesperis matronalis (Dame's rocket)

Last update: 5 February 2021


Common

LOCATION: Krimpen aan den IJssel, garden

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 Dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis).

Red tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) on Dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis)

References

1 Gokcezade, J & Gereben-Krenn, B.-A & Neumayer, Johann & Krenn, Harald. (2010). Feldbestimmungsschlüssel für die Hummeln Österreichs, Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge. 42.

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