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what bumblebee?

18-06-2012 5:03pm

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Anyone good at bumblebee ID?

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or the one in the second photo

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#3 18-06-2012 7:08pm

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Hi Mark:
I am very rusty (I used to identify them in the 1970s!) but big stripey bees like that are often Bombus lucorum if they are queens and have very white tails or B.terrestris if they have brownish tails but workers can look intermediate. These are the biggest bumble bees around (as queens) and the queens come out early.
http://www.bumblebee.org/terr.htm
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#4 18-06-2012 9:12pm

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The British National History Museum provide an online key to identifying Bombus.
Here.

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