Common carder bee
The common carder bee is a fluffy bumblebee with a ginger-brown back and a greyish tail end. It is one of the bumblebees you are most likely to see in gardens and meadows. It has a long tongue for reaching deep into flowers.
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Fun facts
The queen is the biggest bee in the nest, up to 18 millimetres long.
It likes to build its nest in an old mouse nest, made of moss and grass.
The queen keeps a little wax pot of honey in the nest as food for rainy days.
A nest grows to 60 to 150 bees by August, then gets smaller again.
Only the young queens survive the winter, and each one starts a new nest in spring.
Most asked questions about Common carder bee
?What does the common carder bee eat?
Nectar and pollen from many wild flowers, such as clover and thistles.
?Where does the common carder bee nest?
Often in old mouse nests, in bird nests, or in barns and sheds.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bombus pascuorum
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Bombus pascuorum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by André Karwath aka Aka. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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