Common Carder Bumble Bee
Bombus pascuorum
Insecta
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- A few weeks
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Colony
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Venom
- Status
- Common
About
The Common Carder Bumble Bee is named for its habit of carding — combing dry grass and moss into a fibrous mat to build nests above ground, a behaviour unique among European bumblebees. Its rusty-ginger thorax makes it one of the most recognisable garden bumblebees across Europe and Central Asia.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small egg is laid on or near the larval food source and hatches within days or weeks.
- 2.juvenileAn immature insect feeds and molts, growing through successive instars.
- 3.subadultA near-adult insect has wing buds or near-mature form, one molt away from full size.
- 4.adultFully grown, with full wings and adult coloration.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus
- Species
- Bombus pascuorum