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

bonitin wrote:
Didn't manage yet to go through all these interesting sites as it really takes up a lot of time. I think I better give up any attempts to become a good determinator of insects, also because I do not naturally have a scientifical approach of nature's creatures. It is overwhelming complicated at least with these species.

One of the things I read in the interesting article you mention of the caithness org. :

'though any specimen with plentiful black hairs on the sides of the abdomen will be pascuorum'. I think mine has quite a lot of black hairs in the bands of its abdomen so that would be one more reason to assume it is B.pascuorum, but I have learned my lesson not to jump to conclusions and will leave this open.

Yesterday I had the visit of a very deeply fox-red Bumble bee on my butterfly bush, what a valuable plant this is for so many insects!
The pictures are not very sharp because of the wind.