Monday 13 May 2019

Early morning bumblebee

Like most of us, bumblebees take time to get going in the morning.  I found this one early yesterday in bright sunshine but with an air temperature of only 2 or 3℃.  It is a mountain bumblebee queen (Bombus monticola), still not warm enough to fly comfortably.  Perhaps the most attractive bumblebee, it is also known as the bilberry bumblebee, appropriate here as it was sheltering at the base of bilberry plants.  It was shy about having its photo taken and flew of without striking a better pose than these.



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