#3600 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Moss Carder bee

🇳🇱 Moshommel ·Bombus muscorum

VUvulnerable 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Petteri Mäkelä · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © S. Rae · CC BY 4.0
3. © Dirk-Henner Lankenau, Ph.D. · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Игорь Васильев · CC BY 4.0
5. © Bill Baker · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © NABU Nordvorpommern · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © kardelen · CC BY 4.0
8. © Dirk-Henner Lankenau, Ph.D. · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © NABU Nordvorpommern · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Bombus muscorum , commonly known as the large carder bee or moss carder bee , is a species of bumblebee in the family Apidae. The species is found throughout Eurasia in fragmented populations, but is most commonly found in the British Isles. B. muscorum is a eusocial insect. The queen is monandrous, mating with only one male after leaving a mature nest to found its own. Males mate territorially and the species is susceptible to inbreeding and bottlenecks....

base stats

NL sightings 35iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,577iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).