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AndreL, 05.04.2006 21:04

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05.04.2006 22:02, AndreL

Bumblebees (Bombus) are a genus of social bees in the family. Apidae. The body, up to 3.5 cm long, is covered with thick long hairs forming red, black or white bandages. Nests made of wax mixed with dry grass stems, moss, etc., are built in the soil. In the temperate zone, the nest has only one season. Both the overwintered fertilized female and her offspring - working individuals - continue to build the nest, store nectar and pollen to the plant for larvae. The number of individuals in the nest ranges from several tens to thousands. Bumblebees are the main pollinators of forage crops (red clover, alfalfa, and other legumes).
The picture was taken in the Moscow region on 2.05.2004

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06.04.2006 13:01, Bad Den

I may be wrong, of course, but I don't think there is such a thing as a Bombus bombus.
In the photo, in my opinion - Bombus terrestris

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06.04.2006 13:35, AndreL

I am very far from professional entomologists, I just love photographing wildlife. Bombus bombus is a name I've seen both in museums and in the biological dictionary, applied to a bumblebee I know; that's why I used it. Of course, I can be wrong, and I will only be happy if more knowledgeable people clarify or correct me.

06.04.2006 18:38, Tigran Oganesov

The name "Bombus bombus" does not exist, nor does the name "bumblebee". Bumblebee in this angle, I would not dare to identify to the point of view, there are many similar ones.

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02.06.2010 2:58, Бомка

Bombus hypnorum
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Bombus pascuorum
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Bombus patagiatus
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All from ocd. Irkutsk, May 2010. w-))

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03.06.2010 13:27, vasiliy-feoktistov

Guys, I want to ask: Can I post" cuckoo " (genus Psythyrus) here later? A theme like Bombus is called

03.06.2010 15:50, Tigran Oganesov

Guys, I want to ask: Can I post" cuckoo " (genus Psythyrus) here later? A theme like Bombus is called

It is better to start a separate topic.

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03.06.2010 16:03, Бомка

In general, modern taxonomy considers cuckoos as a subgenus of Bombus.

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03.06.2010 17:40, vasiliy-feoktistov

It is better to start a separate topic.

Isn't it easier to call the topic "bumblebees and their cuckoos": especially since we don't have many cuckoos (I judge by the Moscow region)?
P.S. Well, I don't want to create a theme because of one type

, there is a cuckoo and a bumblebee himself, whose is it

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03.06.2010 23:35, Tigran Oganesov

Isn't it easier to call the topic "bumblebees and their cuckoos": especially since we don't have many cuckoos (I judge by the Moscow region)?
P.S. Well, I don't want to create a theme because of one type, there is a cuckoo and a bumblebee himself, whose is it

Corrected the name.

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03.06.2010 23:38, vasiliy-feoktistov

Corrected the name.

Thank you, I'll post it tomorrow!!!

04.06.2010 9:47, vasiliy-feoktistov

Very frequent and rather large bumblebee:
" Stone bumblebee " Bombus lapidarius Linnaeus, 1758 (female).
Caught: 14.08.2000 Here: M. O. Lyuberetsky district of okr. der. Torbeevo.

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04.06.2010 9:48, vasiliy-feoktistov

And yesterday the promised bumblebee, because of which the name of the topic had to be corrected (previously there was a genus Psithyrus, now it is separated into a subgenus from the genus Bombus):
"Cuckoo of the Stone Bumblebee" Bombus (Psithyrus) rupestris Fabricius, 1793 (also female).
A parasite of the above type.
It differs in that it does not have working individuals (therefore, it does not collect pollen) and has dark (almost black) wings.
It occurs here occasionally.
Caught: 06.06.2001г. Here: M. O. Lyuberetsky district of okr. der. Torbeevo (in the same clearing as bumblebee).

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04.06.2010 12:13, Бомка

moreover, we don't have many cuckoos (I judge by the Moscow region)

There are about 40 species of bumblebees in the Baikal region, including 8 species of cuckoo bumblebees.

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04.06.2010 12:33, vasiliy-feoktistov

There are about 40 species of bumblebees in the Baikal region, including 8 species of cuckoo bumblebees.

I don't really do a lot of quail work (I only take them sometimes, and even if I find them interesting), but I think we also have a lot of bumblebees, but I did come across one cuckoo. They are immediately noticeable (on the wings first of all).

04.06.2010 12:43, Бомка

They are immediately noticeable (on the wings first of all).

No, normal bumblebees also have darkened wings.
However, female cuckoos are easily distinguished by their "hairy hind legs".
In female normal bumblebees, there is a well-marked bare, shiny area under the" basket " for pollen.
Males are more difficult to distinguish - you need to look at the keels on the last sternites of the abdomen.

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04.06.2010 12:55, Бомка

04.06.2010 13:41, Tigran Oganesov

IMHO, you can remove the first big photo "Bombus_bombus.jpg".
It is repeated in the next post and does not carry any semantic load.
According to such a photo, it is not possible to determine a bumblebee to a species...

This is due to the old bio-card format. Let the photo remain, but I'll change the file name so that it doesn't confuse people.

04.06.2010 14:07, vasiliy-feoktistov

I decided to post another large bumblebee near Moscow:
I think this is the "Ground bumblebee" Bombus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758 (please correct if wrong).
Caught: 26.06.2001 Here: M. O. Lyuberetsky district of okr. der. Torbeevo.

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04.06.2010 23:04, алекс 2611

I don't really do a lot of quail work (I only take them sometimes, and even if I find them interesting), but I think we also have a lot of bumblebees, but I did come across one cuckoo. They are immediately noticeable (on the wings first of all).

I never caught bumblebees on purpose, but I collected 4 species of cuckoo bumblebees from the Leningrad Region without any problems. In considerable quantity. We have them just now, in June they flew. Pretty massive.

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05.06.2010 3:08, Бомка

4 types of bumblebees-cuckoos collected without any problems. In considerable quantity. We have them just now, in June they flew. Pretty massive.

Alex, what plants do you have them on now?

05.06.2010 8:00, vasiliy-feoktistov

In my opinion, cuckoos should be in the same place as bumblebees themselves (amateur's opinion)

My scapana with some umbrella (hike even with snyti, if memory serves me correctly)

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05.06.2010 10:59, алекс 2611

Alex, what plants do you have them on now?

Most of them are collected on legumes (various types of clover and chyna) and on compositae (dandelion, snowbush). Two specimens from the flowers of the myrtle-leaved willow (well, this is at the end of May, when the legumes are still not very blooming).

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05.06.2010 11:01, алекс 2611

Mine was snatched up from some umbrella trucks (I don't even know what to do, if my memory serves me right) .

And on the label you need to write it down. Then the memory will not fail

05.06.2010 11:08, vasiliy-feoktistov

And on the label you need to write it down. Then the memory will not fail

Missed it, so when it was-then

07.06.2010 15:05, Бомка

"Flight of the Bumblebee" performed by Bombus lucorum (my video). ;-))
Cm. here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3S7UB8TdpY

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11.07.2010 15:03, Prokhozhyj

And speaking of bumblebees. No one can tell you who it is? Similar to the stone ones, but only about a centimeter long and very fast. I met him a couple of days ago in Moscow near Derbenevskaya Street. They don't fight for" Insects of the USSR", and I don't have a normal determinant...

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12.07.2010 14:49, Tigran Oganesov

And speaking of bumblebees. No one can tell you who it is? Similar to the stone ones, but only about a centimeter long and very fast. I met him a couple of days ago in Moscow near Derbenevskaya Street. They don't fight for" Insects of the USSR", and I don't have a normal determinant...

Most likely "small stone" - Bombus derhamellus

25.09.2010 18:55, akulich-sibiria

can you tell me the key words for Siberian cuckoos? Well, of course, except for Europe.parts and DV. There are also bumblebees of Udmurtia. Now I'm sitting with them...In addition to rupestris and bohemicus (with the latter there was a hitch, the description is similar to vestalis, but it seems that the latter's range is not the same), there are a couple more species. Tomorrow I'll post a photo

11.12.2012 23:59, papa-racii

Recently (in August) I photographed a bumblebee (or cuckoo). Please help me determine who it is? Maybe a male stone (Lapidarius)? I've never seen them. At first I thought it was Kamenny's cuckoo, but I compared it based on the photos available on the Internet - it doesn't look very similar.

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12.12.2012 6:06, Svyatoslav Knyazev

Recently (in August) I photographed a bumblebee (or cuckoo). Please help me determine who it is? Maybe a male stone (Lapidarius)? I've never seen them. At first I thought it was Kamenny's cuckoo, but I compared it based on the photos available on the Internet - it doesn't look very similar.

Where was it taken? maybe P. rupestris.

This post was edited by Konung - 12.12.2012 06: 06

14.01.2013 20:57, papa-racii

Where was it taken? maybe P. rupestris.

It was taken near Penza, less than a kilometer from the city. In the city itself, stone and earth bumblebees are very common, but it's like something in between-I've never seen anything like it in Penza or in the region. I also don't know if there is a basket (bumblebee) or not (cuckoo) on the paws, although the paws themselves are not bad to see. And P. rupestris is the cuckoo of what bumblebee?

22.05.2016 20:55, Strelok

Help me determine it. Large 3.5-4 cm. The hair on the head is black, the chest is orange-yellow with a bald spot. The first 2 tergites of the abdomen are the same color, the rest are pitch-black. The wings are dark with a purple tint. Gorny Altai, steppe area.

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24.05.2016 16:34, Strelok

Very similar to bugguide.net/node/view/129418/bgimage

But how is this possible?

24.05.2016 21:21, ИНО

How is it possible that the Asian bumblebee is similar to the North American bumblebee? Yes, it's very simple, bumblebees in general are famous for their external similarity with each other, sometimes bringing this entomologists to the handle. But in this case, even in the color there is a difference: nevadensis has 1-3 abdominal tergites in yellow hairs, and yours has only 1-2

24.05.2016 21:26, ИНО

Recently (in August) I photographed a bumblebee (or cuckoo). Please help me determine who it is? Maybe a male stone (Lapidarius)? I've never seen them. At first I thought it was Kamenny's cuckoo, but I compared it based on the photos available on the Internet - it doesn't look very similar.

It really looks like a male lapidarius. But identifying bumblebees from male photos is a dead order.

04.09.2016 15:00, Евгений-1312

Please help me identify the material and share the literature to identify this group, unfortunately I couldn't find it on my own. The first one was caught in July in Kyrgyzstan.The rest in Buryatia in June

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04.09.2016 15:26, Евгений-1312

Here's more from Vostochny Sayan June 2016

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11.12.2017 20:54, lna

Question: by what external signs can a male be distinguished from a female in Bombus terrestris (without injuring the insect)? Pictures would especially help, of course. I can't find anything useful on the Internet on this topic (I'm not looking well?)
Thank you very much in advance!

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