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Moss carder bee

Bombus muscorum

Neat, short-haired pale-ginger bee.
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Worker

Ginger fluffy face
All ginger

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June

Male

Ginger fluffy face
All ginger

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July

Queen

Ginger fluffy face
All ginger

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April
  • No black hairs at all
  • Occasionally has a brown band
Bumblebee
Ginger Tail
Rare
Not Applicable
Bumblebee
Ginger Tail
Rare
Not Applicable

Moss carder bee

Bombus muscorum

Likes open grassland and the coastline.
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Likes flowery grasslands, marshes and moors.

  • Bird’s-foot trefoil
  • Knapweed
  • Red clover
  • Thistles
  • Vetches
  • White dead nettle
crocus Crocus
lavendar Lavendar
thistle Thistle

Nest

  • Ground surface or just below surface
  • Lasts around 3 months
  • Less than 100 workers

Distribution

  • Rare
  • More common in the north and in Scotland