Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Large black and white bumble bee.., 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
'a larger one of the same type' .. I meant the same species or similar species, a cuckoo bumblebee. There is only females and males, but the females are in a way queens as female workers are not needed, and as the females will be the ones which reproduce they are really queens. They have no need for workers as they take over other bumblebees nests, I wonder if there will be any left before long as there seems to be an increase in cuckoos!

It seems the males are the slow ones, lol, they creep around the flower slowly and will crawl to another flower if they can.

I think I had a new B. bohemicus today, it has lemon yellow bands and did look different in shape to the others. Look at the short yellow bands on the abdomen, very lemon yellow! This one looks more like a normal bumblebee in shape.





This message was edited Aug 1, 2008 11:32 PM