Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bumblebee

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 17-07-2007 21:26
#1

A couple of weeks ago I found this strange, quite small bumblebee on the flowers on our terrace. It had a rather flat and pointed face and the thorax was brown with a distinct dark centre. Also it had a small brown tip to the abdomen.
Two days later I found another four or five of the same bumblebees at the edge of a small wooded area along the river Linge with lots of flowers. They were foraging mainly on Echium vulgare.

Does anyone know which species this could be?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 17-07-2007 21:27
#2

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Posted by cthirion on 18-07-2007 11:33
#3

possible Bombus pascuorum var.moorselensis?

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 18-07-2007 20:57
#4

Thanks cthirion. Is this a more or less regular colour variation then, with that black patch on the thorax? I never noticed it before.

Posted by cthirion on 18-07-2007 22:56
#5

Hello, it is only one suggestion, I will show it in Pierre Rasmont (Belgium) on his return of holidays! ?

?But I have the memory to have reclassified the same ones with these dark marks! ?
?Patience! ?

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 19-07-2007 20:39
#6

I am aware of the fact that it's only a suggestion, cthirion. I will be patient B) Thanks for your help on this one!