Common carder bumblebee  (Bombus pascuorum)

Learn about the scientific name of this species and how it fits into the tree of life at Nature Navigator.

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For details of how you can help bumblebees, see English Nature’s leaflet ‘Help save the bumblebee…Get More Buzz from Your Garden’ available on-line at
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/news/news_photo/savegardenbumblesweb.pdf

For more on bumblebees see: Prys-Jones, O.E. & Corbet, S. A (1991). Bumblebees. Naturalists’ Handbooks 6. Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.

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