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Shrill carder bee

Bombus sylvarum

'Washed-out' ginger bee with black thorax band.
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Queen

Pale straw-coloured fluffy face
Pale, straw-coloured collar
Pale straw-coloured rear band
Two or three straw-coloured abdominal bands
Ginger tail

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May

Worker

Pale straw-coloured fluffy face
Pale, straw-coloured collar
Pale straw-coloured rear band
Two or three straw-coloured abdominal bands
Ginger tail

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June

Male

Pale straw-coloured fluffy face
Pale, straw-coloured collar
Pale straw-coloured rear band
Two or three straw-coloured abdominal bands
Ginger tail

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August
  • Very rare
  • Late emerging bee
Bumblebee
Ginger Tail
Rare
Not Applicable
Bumblebee
Ginger Tail
Rare
Not Applicable

Shrill carder bee

Bombus sylvarum

High-pitched buzz.
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  • Bird’s-foot trefoils
  • Black horehound
  • Hedge woundwort
  • Red clover
  • White dead nettles
crocus Crocus
lavendar Lavendar
thistle Thistle

Nest

  • On or just below ground
  • In thick vegetation and tussocky grassland

Distribution

  • Very rare
  • Localised
  • Only found in South England and parts of Wales
  • Sand dunes, healthlands, slat-marshes, shingle beaches, chalk downs, brownfield sites