Common Carder Bumble Bee
Bombus pascuorum
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Insects
Bombus pascuorum, the common carder bee, is a species of bumblebee present in most of Europe in a wide variety of habitats such as meadows, pastures, waste ground, ditches and embankments, roads, and field margins, as well as gardens and parks in urban areas and forests and forest edges. It is similar in appearance to Bombus muscorum, and is replacing that species in northern Britain.
Classification
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus