#3626 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Shrill Carder-Bumble bee

🇳🇱 Boshommel ·Bombus sylvarum

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Norbert Sauberer · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Wolfgang Jauch · CC BY 4.0
3. © Guido Bohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Klaus Dühr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Josef-Miller-Straße, Kallmünz, Bayern, DE:© sowi · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Талдом, Московская обл., Россия:© Александр Урваков · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Sittingbourne, UK:© Kieran Richardson · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sariai, Lithuania:© sariai · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Harsleben, Germany:© Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Bombus sylvarum , the shrill carder bee or knapweed carder-bee , is a species of bumblebee with a wide distribution across Europe, east to the Ural Mountains, and north to Great Britain, Ireland, and southern Scandinavia.

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,636iNaturalist observations

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).