Scientific Name: Bombus hortorum.
English Name: Garden Bumblebee.
French Name: Le Bourdon des jardins (='the garden bumblebee').
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Habitat: Woodland, parks, gardens, cemeteries, allotments, roadside verges, hedgerows, farmland. It is an important agricultural pollinator. Nests in sunny spots above or below ground.
Flight Period: March-April-May-June-July-August-September.
Status: Ubiquitous and common.
References and Further Reading:
Bumblebees by Ted Benton, one of the New Naturalist series published by Collins.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
All photographs will enlarge in a new window if you click on them. Row 1 a queen foraging in the gardens at the chateau of Chenonceau, June.
English Name: Garden Bumblebee.
French Name: Le Bourdon des jardins (='the garden bumblebee').
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- smaller than White / Buff Tailed Bumblebee B. lucorum / terrestris.
- black with a bright yellow collar, yellow scutellum (the tip of the thorax) and yellow on the first two abdominal segments.
- white tail.
- coat fairly shaggy.
- black hairs on the corbicular (pollen collection receptacle on the hind tibiae).
Habitat: Woodland, parks, gardens, cemeteries, allotments, roadside verges, hedgerows, farmland. It is an important agricultural pollinator. Nests in sunny spots above or below ground.
Flight Period: March-April-May-June-July-August-September.
Status: Ubiquitous and common.
References and Further Reading:
Bumblebees by Ted Benton, one of the New Naturalist series published by Collins.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
All photographs will enlarge in a new window if you click on them. Row 1 a queen foraging in the gardens at the chateau of Chenonceau, June.
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