Mary C Legg, Mary C Legg, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 5583213
Photographer:
Descriptor:
Adult(s)
Gender:
Male
Image view:
Lateral / Side
Description:
Male Red-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus lapidarius. Bees maintain a medium sized colony of 100-200 bees. B ladpidarious nests underground in hard dry areas .Prefers open habitat such as grasslands. Diet is pollen and nectar. B lapidarius is host nest for the cuckoo bee, B. rupestris. Queen can be as large as 22mm, but males and workers are smaller and variable size.
Image type:
Field
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Image location:
Czechia, Milovice
Subject
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: Hexapoda |
| Class: Insecta |
| Infraclass: Neoptera |
| Subclass: Pterygota |
| Order: Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: Apocrita |
| Superfamily: Apoidea |
| Family: Apidae |
| Subfamily: Apinae |
| Tribe: Bombini |
| Genus: Bombus |
| Subject: Bombus lapidarius (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Host
| Kingdom: Plantae |
| Phylum: Magnoliophyta |
| Class: Magnoliopsida |
| Subclass: Asteridae |
| Order: Asterales |
| Family: Asteraceae |
| Genus: Centaurea |
| Subject: Centaurea jacea L. |
Node Affiliation:
Image taken:
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Image uploaded:
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Image last updated:
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
