Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Is this one Bombus pascuorum ?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Ha ha, now why would males need wings andlegs! Saving on space I think.

Yes, all you say is true, but look at this hairy body of my first bee, taken another time (14th September last year) but it's the same bee. The hairs are thick and all around the body. This may be a Queen, they are usually larger, and that could explain the slower habit. I don't really know what else it could be, I have a pic from early May last year of the same type or same bee too. As the Queen is the only one to live over winter to have it in early May as well as October it must be a queen. They build the nest, lay the eggs and feed them, until they get the first lot of workers hatched.

No reply on the pic I sent yet.