Common Carder-bee / Bumbar

Description:

It is a species of bumblebee belonging to the family Apidae subfamily Apinae tribus Bombini. These bees reach a body length of 15–18 mm (Queen), 9–15 mm (worker) or 12–14 mm (drone). Their wingspan is 28–32 mm (Queen), 20–28 mm (worker) or 24–27 mm (drone). The thorax is yellowish or reddish-brown. The first 4 abdominal segments have grayish hair, while the fifth and sixth tergite hairs are yellowish or reddish brown. However the species is quite variable in color. The head is medium long, the snout long, reaching lengths of 13–15 mm (Queen), 12–13 mm (worker) and 10–11 mm (drone). Queens appear between early April to mid-May, workers at the end of April/early May to mid-October.

Habitat:

They are present in most of Europe in a wide variety of habitats such as meadows, pastures, waste ground, ditches and embankments, road, field margins, as well as gardens and parks in urban areas and forests and forest edges. It was spotted while pollinating lungwort flowers ( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/989... ).