Bombus pascuorum', the common carder bee
Caught today October 4th, 2022 on my loggia.
"Now it's autumn and even when the sun is shining there are hardly any bumblebees on the remaining blossoms. The peoples of most species have already died; the young fertilized queens have retired to their winter quarters. The only bumblebee that is still relatively numerous is also our most common species: the field bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum). Due to its inconspicuous red-brown, beige and black hair and its slender body, it is often mistaken for a solitary wild bee instead of a bumblebee.” Imkerverein Dresden
"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.
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