#3504 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Common Carder Bumble Bee

🇳🇱 Akkerhommel ·Bombus pascuorum

LCleast concern 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

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 the species in Northern Britain .

base stats

NL sightings 3,011iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 112,599iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).

fun facts

Spotted 3,011 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #2 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
112,599 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).